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The Indian polity, a democratic diagnosis
Context:
- Parliament has lost its effectiveness as an instrument of oversight and there is a declining process of scrutiny, debate and dissent.
Present situation of parliamentary democracy:
- Concentration of powers: There is a growing concentration of power in the executive branch, led by the prime minister.
- Decreasing Presidents’ role: The replacement, at the forthcoming inaugural [of the new Parliament building, of the real president of the Indian republic by the prime minister may symbolise more than the ego of an individual.
- Potential shift towards an autocratic form of governance: deviating from the principles of parliamentary democracy and the intended balance of power between the branches of government.
Strengths of Indian system of democracy:
- Social democracy must be achieved: The trinity of liberty, equality, and fraternity, as emphasized by B.R. Ambedkar, is seen as the ultimate goal of social democracy.
- Separation of powers: The effective functioning of the legislature, executive, and judiciary.
- Cooperation: The principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity and the need for effective functioning of the legislature, executive, and judiciary to preserve the essence of Indian democracy.
Challenges:
- Decline in an Oversight: a progressive decline in its functioning over the years, with a diminishing role in scrutiny, accountability, and oversight.
- Hindering scrutiny, debate, and dissent: The leadership of the day remains silent or shows a lack of attendance and delays the functioning of standing committees, further undermining.
- Use of ideological orientation: Presently, dharmic sanctification in the Parliament ceremony makes to reinforce the unresponsiveness and lack of accountability.
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