A PM is not an employee who had to inform his employer as to how many number of hours he is working. As long as he is achieving what he has promised, it should be fine with every one. If he is unable to fulfill his promises, then no one cares whether he took any leaves or not. Coming to the technical part of leave: We have a parliamentary democracy and their are checks and balances and there are some positions who are inter dependent in nature. PM though is answerable to President, however, President is also bound by the aid and advice of the cabinet headed by PM. So, its more like an amorphous situation and difficult for a PM to apply for a leave :-) and hence, technically , he was in office for every day. Now coming to another question: Had he used office time for personal ventures? Of course yes, Attending party meetings, RSS conclaves , photo shoot with his mother- all these are personal endeavours done out of office time. Are they illegal? No they are not, as he is a public fig
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