what difficulty in Indian parliament facing.
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When Parliament fails to act
By not passing the Grievance Redressal law for example, every Indian citizenwill continue to be frustrated by an unaccountable delivery system. Photo: A. Shaikmohideen
By not passing the Grievance Redressal law for example, every Indian citizenwill continue to be frustrated by an unaccountable delivery system. Photo: A. Shaikmohideen | Photo Credit: A_SHAIKMOHIDEEN;A_SHAIKMOHIDEEN - A_SHAIKMOHIDEEN
Aruna Roy
Nikhil Dey
03 MARCH 2014 00:21 IST
UPDATED: 19 MAY 2016 05:49 IST
As the people of India have been faced with a Parliament that has been deliberately non-functioning, they have no choice left but to demand that the President promulgate ordinances to bring in laws on which there was a clear consensus
The demand for ordinances to be promulgated on consensus legislations such as the Grievance Redressal Bill, has to be seen in the context of the failure of the 15th Lok Sabha to function. In the midst of statements from some Opposition parties that the government should not promulgate ordinances, there is a persistent demand from some people’s movements and campaigns that consensus legislations should be promulgated as ordinances. One of the major reasons for using the ordinance provision of the Constitution with caution is to make sure the government does not use it to impose a law that Parliament may have disapproved of. The ordinance as a short route has therefore often been criticised, even by us for bypassing Parliament. In this case it does not. On the contrary, it takes already deliberated and examined Bills on which a consensus has been reached, but is marred by Parliament’s failure to legislate.
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Indians repeatedly proclaim their parliament as the temple of democracy. But as India celebrates its 68th Independence Day they are bent on defiling this temple; not consecrating it. Veteran journalist T.J.S. George’s says, “Before Independence we had great parliamentarians but no parliament. Today we have a grand Parliament House but no parliamentarians