PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IN INDIA

Everyone knows that India has a Parliamentary System of Governance. But do you know where this system came from? Why India adopted this system only? Why no other else? And what is this system?

 If you also want to know the answers to these questions then you should read this article completely and carefully.

During making of Constitution

The question of which governance system will be adopted was very important for the framers of the Constitution. They had two options -

Presidential System of America

Parliamentary System of Britain

All Members of Constituent Assembly did not agree on one system. They all began to favor the different system and could not come at one conclusion.

But most of the members of Constituent Assembly were in favor of Britain’s Parliamentary system included Jawaharlal Nehru. He told that India is not in position to do any fresh experiment. As we have gained experience of that Parliamentary system for so many years.

India was going through very crucial situation at that time and was not in position to take any further risk just after Independence.

So instead of any experiment with something new, they decided to continue with Britain’s Parliamentary system.  So in this way the British Parliamentary system was included in the Constitution of India, and further divided into articles for state and center governance:  Article 74 & 75 deals with the Parliamentary system at the Centre and Article 163 & 164 deals with at the States.

What is Parliamentary system?

Here are some features of this system that will make it easy to understand –

My view about this system

The Constitution makers chose this system after thinking a lot and in my opinion this system is correct for India. But is this the Constitution what makers thought?  

The level of Parliament that represents our country is falling down. Today Parliament is becoming less a workplace and more like an arena. Commonwealth games scam, 2G spectrum scam, Coal- gate scam and many more are the example that shows the   shortcomings of the government.

Even today, After 72 years of independence government has failed to eradicate major economic issues like poverty, illiteracy and unemployment.

One third of the world’s poor is in India and government is trying to reduce the poverty continuing the same.

Minor attendance of Ministers- reduced meetings, reduced number of questions in Parliament, misbehave, lack of discipline, all this shows that members have no interest in working for people and country’s growth and development.

Actually we are also the reason of this situation; our nature of negligence and “move on” is now paying off in negative way. Non- practicing of our voting rights is also one of the causes. 

Today, due to our silence, the county is facing many problems. We will have to take a step forward ourselves for us and our country’s growth and development. Then we will be able to create that India, which our great constitution makers had thought to be.