Presidential v/s Parliamentary Form of Government in India

DEMERITS OF THE CURRENT PARLIMENTARY SYSYEM:.

1. The electorate through the general elections elect a party to power, but more often than not, the name of person who would become prime minister after being elected to power is not disclosed. Even if it is disclosed very frequently it is changed after being elected to power. The prime minister is invested with several key powers; the electorate should have the right to know his identity.

2. The cabinet ministers, who play an integral role in the functioning and development of the country, are not directly elected by the people. This makes the whole process of voting less democratic in nature. The real power is not in the hands of the people.

3. This un-involvement of the people in the elections also decreases the interest and need of the people to vote, as they do not actually play a definitive role in the formation of the government.

4. Very frequently in India, the government formed is a coalition of parties (E. G. The United Progressive Alliance). In such a system there could be constant frictions between individual parties, due to the difference in ideologies. On account of this there could be stagnation of public work programmes, implementation of policies etc.

5. The concept of vote banks is unfortunately, firmly instilled in the Indian system of a parliamentary democracy. Vote banks are created in different areas and constituencies by different candidates and parties, on the basis of cast, race, religion etc. Corruption and defection too is rampant. A more transparent system is required.

Hence clearly a presidential system is required.

I am sure that you don't remember that when we were not free, all Indians participated equally in the fight to get freedom. So our constitution chose the parliamentary system of democracy so that all the ethnic groups, religious groups and the tribal groups have equal rights. If you study the history of democracy then India wa the only country where women didn't had to fight for their voting right.

So when we are living in a free country for which every one of our peers had fought for, why should there be only one person and his/her colleagues with all the powers to run the country. All systems has their demerits. And it is true that the multiparty system in India lead to a lot of politics and corruption but if presidential form of government comes in then there would be a bigger problem. India will be fighting for independence again or each state will be fighting to be free from India. Think about it. Isn't it the political system India responsible for the fact that the country is not disintegrated into smaller countries instead of states?

I strongly recommend presidential form of government. As we can see many drawbacks in parliamentary form of government.

Firstly,

We don't get quality leaders to govern our country. We can experience that if any candidate who's opting for any job specially any government job then it is clearly mentioned in the application form that there should not be any criminal charges against him, but everyone know's there are many politician's who have criminal charges against them and despite of that they are continuing there terms as ministers.

My point is that when we need no criminal charges against us for getting a any government job. Then why we are careless for them who are going to govern us for complete 5 years.

Secondly,

You all might me knowing that nowadays every newspaper's headlines with some or the other minister's fake qualification degree cases.

Finally,

There are country's in world where they are governed by president and are most successful in achieving there goals.

People say that presidential form may lead to dictatorship, so parliamentary form is good. I want to say that every problem has its own solution which leads to research. According to my research I concluded with my points that there will be no misuse of power in presidency form which may lead to dictatorship. And they are-.

*no president can hold the office for more than two years term means 10 years.

*if people find that president is going wrong then they may withdraw power by voting.

*if president tries to supress people then people are having right to act and inform supreme court in which court orders military to take action.

So these are the steps to be taken if the president goes tyrant.

According to me presidential form of government is better than parliamentary form of government. If, we notice America, they are following presidential form of government. Here president has the supreme power (power is centralized) rather than parliament form of government (power is distributed).

More the distribution of power more is the misuse of power. What actually is happening in India. Today why there is day to day increase in corruption occurring in India. If we see today ministers they make good promises before election but after they win election where are the promises. That is why parliamentary or democratic form of government is the worst form of government.

As per my opinion parliamentary form of government is good.

As we all know that India is country which have 121 crore people's worth different religions caste language. This why India is known as Sovereign means an independent nation. Socialist implies social and economic equality for all Indian citizens. This guarantees equal opportunity and equal social status. The government attempts to reduce economic inequality by reducing concentration of wealth.

Secular implies freedom to choose your religion. The state gives every citizen the right to practice and propagate a religion of his choice, and also right to reject all religions. The state treats all religions as equal and there is no official state religion. Democratic means the government is a democratically elected, head of the government (Prime Minister) is elected by the people.

So its not easy for a single person to handle such a population of various caste there must be a person from them who understand them & from them which is democracy i.e. from the people by the people for the people. If there was a single person lets take its from Odisha & taking decision particular points & that's create problem I have an example regarding this.

THERE IS AN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING WHICH HAS ALMOST ALL BRANCH FOR STUDY BUT ONLY & ONLY A DIRECTOR WHICH IS MBA.

I am a citizen of India, by birth, and a retired HSC physics / chemistry teacher. I have exercised my franchise of voting in many elections. Therefore my following points will be useful in having a true and able government, which will really take care of the society.

1). First of all, I am against the parliamentary system because it grossly violates the basic principle of democracy " that is - for the people, from the people by the people". As a result, in our country political parties have been mushrooming in the last 66 years, this trend automatically puts an obstacle for having proper governance. On the other hand, these parties make adverse effect on the governance. Therefore I think, we have to adopt the presidential system just like in the USA, only ruling and opposing parties.

2). Secondly, in my opinion, a democratic system cannot survive if its foundation is having *religious* cracks and therefore there should not be any concession based on any *religious factor* in the national and provincial governance. Every rule, law, act etc. In the governance must be based on natural science. As a retired science teacher, let me state one important fact. For Nature, every child by birth is a *Homo sapiens* and Nature records death of a person as death of a Homo sapiens " not as a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian. And hence I firmly believe that concessions based on *religion* must stopped because they are dangerous for the national integrity.

If these reforms are implemented today, we will have to wait for at least 25 years to see the fruits. But we must do it, if we really want to change the gloomy picture of 50 years.

For a country like India, presidential form of govt is better. It helps to tackle problems like corruption, reduced growth rates etc better. Delayed decision making is a setback for the parliamentary form. For quick and instant decisions like war policies etc, the veto of the president comes handy.

Since India is a huge country that is still in the process of developing and that which has tons of religion and caste I believe that a parliamentary system of government is best suited. People are dying for their voices to be heard and grievances can be addressed well only when the leader is more accessible.

A presidential system becomes more inaccessible for the people as there are so many illiterate people in this nation. And in a parliamentary system all the various grievances can be discussed and action can be brought about accordingly by various parties and not just one voice.

In my point of view parliamentary form is far better than presidential form. If presidential form is opted by Indians than the day is not so far when army try to take over the government like Arab countries.

Unity in diversity is the backbone of India and our country is a combination of 1000 caste and number of religion and their groups. All groups wants their representative in govt to project their minor but so important issues to sort out. In these case presidential form is not successful. Thank for listening me.