Presidential v/s Parliamentary Form of Government in India

We may say that both systems have merits and demerits. While public opinion has better chance to influence the government's policies and decisions in the Parliamentary system, the Presidential system is more successful in providing political stability. Any system of government will succeed in India if different organs of government work sincerely and follow the rules of the game. Another critical factor in this regard is the awareness and alertness of people.

Even though, both the governments have attractive features necessary for development in India, Parliamentary form of government which is currently prevalent must be carried on. India is a developing country and malfunctioning government may cause it to deteriorate. The current government undoubtedly requires necessary changes but if a new type of government is introduced, the risk of inefficiency will surely hover on India which is not desirable. Many other factors will influence the new government like political and civilian support, requirement efficient leaders, etc. Due to this, currently there are no requirements of any other government in India but Parliamentary government.

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.

I favour parliamentary form of government in India. The presidential system is quite flawed and is not suitable for a country like India which is the second biggest nation in terms of population and whose diversity in terms of language, culture and religion is immense. The presidential system has many demerits such as:

* Encourages a 2-party system which may not represent the interests of all Indians. There is no scope for a third party to ever win.

* Voters would vote for a party based on the personality of the presidential candidate and not on the ideology, which is against the spirit of democracy i.e. the party is bigger than the person.

* President may be from one party, but the government may be from another party with a completely different ideology, which can lead to obstructionism and policy paralysis if there is a clash of views, a phenomenon which should never occur in developing countries, where strong and consensual decisions are a must.

Hi I am Burhan Qureshi I would like to give you a sneak peak of my mind at these two form of government.

As each one of you know about the quotation by lord Acton that "power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely" which very well defines about the demerits of presidential form of government.

But to my country there is a need of an hour for presidential form of government for five years which could possibly remove the corruption from India at a very large extent farthermost it will make up the minds of all corrupted leaders not to get in rackets which not only insults their self respect but also destroy their vast shadow and then it can be removed returning to latter form.

In India the powers are not centralised but parliamentary form in which the powers are almost distributed so we are not damn sure that prime minister is the real head of India as he can be dismissed by the president by the help of council of ministers.

In my opinion both parliamentary and presidential government are good but that depends upon the state in which it has to be enacted.

Talking about India we have diversity of religion culture, different peoples and different classes. Parliamentary government distributes the power among the political parties in different states. Thus this makes possible to put forward the issues of respective religion/classes by their respective representative.

In country like India president alone can not sort out the problem of each and every state/peoples because there are also many works to do besides that like foreign relation maintenance etc.

But least we can do is to make mixed government just like France keeping both president as well as prime minister in power. This can really help India to boost its progress.

This is the best solution I can come with.

Thank you.

I favour the parliamentary form of democracy, through and through. History says that most presidential forms of democracies have been misused and abused to become dictatorship. In a parliamentary form, it is absolutely difficult to transform though. Given the nature of our politicians, presidential form of democracy will be disastrous. Parliament stops that single person from abusing power. Just look at Egypt, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Russia and many many countries. Even though there might be policy paralysis and inaction's, always, and always, a parliamentary system means stability. Presidential system works only when there is less diversity and the people are more homogeneous and speak more or less the same language. It will fail in India. India should essentially remain a parliamentary democracy.

Constitution of India provides for a Parliamentary form of government. In doing so it follows the British model of government. Infact, the system of government that operated in India before 1947 was quite similar to the British model of parliamentary government. The members of the Constituent Assembly therefore decided to adopt this form of government for Independent of India. The Constitution of India provides for the organization of parliamentary government both at the central and state levels. All the features of a parliamentary government: Close relationship between the legislature and executive, responsibility of the executive before the legislature, head of the state as the nominal executive, and Prime Minister and the Council of Minister as the real executive, have been adopted in India.

Cultural plurality is the root cause of discrimination in Indian society, due to which many states wants to be an Independent Nation to maintain the integrity of the country only parliamentary form of government is not suitable. Huge diversity in caste, sex, religion demands to increase power or independent executive but at the same time corruption which is an ace problem in India democracy make us put power over executive ie Legislative. At this time we need a quick decision-making government having the lifespan of fixed 5 years but due to the fact of Regionalism to keep a check or to make them participate in decision making. Hence in India having a vast culture the real need of successful democracy is strong judiciary and having strong laws applicable on every citizen of India.

As for me parliamentary form of government should be in India. Actually India is one of the biggest democracy country. Here people want to express their feelings without any objection. So we need Parliamentary type of gvt. In this country having 1000 of religions. , and also it is 2nd biggest nation in population. If presidential is formed here. , all peoples are losses their identity. They work to that president only. What he say they should that thing only.

For example: In Hitler time their people losses their identity and they are slaves for him. There is no their won cultural events for them.

India having 1000 of different religion and different type of festival. If India also followed presidential form human beings losses their identity.