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Leaders must boost citizens’ well-being

What is the principal purpose of any leadership? Someone argued and I think he is correct, that the core business of leadership in a country are “to have a nation where all women are strong, all men are good looking, all children are above average in school and all households wild with happiness.”

How much of this core business of our leadership at all levels have been accomplished since 2010 when we turned a new page of governance structure under the current Constitution? What ratio of our ten million or so households are indeed amazed, yes, excited with happiness? What is the very purpose of life, if it is not to be happy?

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