“You want to have a continuation of the process, and for you, the continuation of that process is important so that idea or practice or brand gets entrenched,” the PM argued.
“So, in that context at times in many institutions, you do feel, or the political dispensation feels, that some individual has to continue for any security benefit or otherwise, and they [the state] have got the discretion to do that [grant extension]. There’s nothing unusual and abnormal about it,” he added.