what are the conflicts in India's federal system
Answers
Answer:
India is the largest democracy in the world. It is
due to the number of people live in this country.
India won her independence through a well
organised nationalist struggle. Before achieving
independence the political elites in the country
were trained as per the principles and practices
of the western democracies. Before it wrote its
Constitution the other such documents had an
impact upon the political mind of India. The
western brand of the representative government
was mostly accepted and for the political parties,
high profile institutions, electoral system, federal
scheme, parliamentary form of government and
above all bill of rights were put into one basket
which gave us the Constitution of India becoming
effective from twentysixth of January, nineteen
hundred and fifty.
During the nationalist struggle, the Father
of the Nation M.K. Gandhi provided a new ethos
which opted for gram swaraj and swadeshi
economic model. He had understood the pulse
of the nation and the western brand of democracy
which encourages cut throat competition
expected to wreck the political structure from
within. He suggested for direct election only at
the lower most level and the next four layers
Conflicts in Indian Polity : Revisiting India's
Federal System
Prof. Surya Narayan Misra
(mandal, zilla, rajya and rastra) to have indirect
election. The poverty and illiteracy of the country
were seen as major threat to political process.
The country had already plunged into caste and
religion based political differences leading to
partition and after independence there was rise
of regional and language conflicts. The country
after independence became victim to all these.
The Constituent Assembly was
composed of people majority of which was from
one set of political thinking and they were not
elected by the people of India but indirectly
chosen by different provincial legislatures. Despite
good beginning and well spelt out objectives, the
existing political environment impacted upon the
Constitution framing. The end of World War II,
origin of cold war, communal hatred leading to
partition of India, mischievous British policy
towards princely states, socio-economic
conditions of newly born India had visible impact
leading to go for a parliamentary form of
Government with a federal system. Though we
borrowed these two systems from British and
American polities, yet we were far away from
the spirit and prophecies of those models. In Great
Britain there was parliamentary sovereignty and
they did not have a codified Constitution. We have
to write our Constitution which became the
14 JANUARY - 2018
Explanation:
HERE IS UR ANSWER :)
MARK AS BRAINLIEST :)
