Question

why did the india adopt the parlimentary system of government ? give three reasons

Answer 1

India adopted the Parliamentary form of democracy in the year 1947 for the following reasons:

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.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 otherand 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.”The Constitution of India rejected the Presidential system as in the U.S.A. on the grounds that under such a system, “the Executive and the Legislatures are separate from and independent of each other, which is likely to cause conflicts between them, which our infant democracy could ill-afford to risk.”

Therefore, the familiarity of the Indian polity with the working of the British system of government, representation of diverse interest groups, fear of dead-lock between the executive and legislature- all led to the adoption of the parliamentary system of government in India by the Constituent Assembly.