if india becomes a presidencial form of government how will india be
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India adopted the Parliamentary form of democracy in the year 1947 since India has been familiar with its working during the times of British Rule. The type of government that functioned in India before independence in 1947 was very much similar to the British model of parliamentary. The framers of the constitution were greatly influenced by the English system. Therefore, the members of the Constituent Assembly decided to adopt this form of government for the independent India. India is a nation deeply divided into several groups with conflicting interests. All these varied groups are ensured representation in the Parliament through this form of government.
As explained by K.M. Munshi in the Constituent Assembly, “We must not forget a very important fact that during the last one hundred years Indian public life has largely drawn upon the traditions of the British Constitutional Law. Most of us and during the last several generations before us, public men in India, have looked up to the British model as the best. For the last thirty of forty years, some kind of responsibility has been introduced in the governance of this country. Our constitutional traditions have become Parliamentary and we have now all our Provinces functioning more or less on the British model. As a matter of fact, today, the Dominion Government of India is functioning as a full-fledged Parliamentary government.”
Besides Munshi, K. Santhanam, referring to the Presidential system in the U.S.A., too made it clear “that the presidential system the executive and legislature could be seen at loggerheads because of their separation with each other and when they are at loggerheads for a period of three or four years till either the legislature is renewed or the president is re- elected, the whole thing will be a deadlock.”