Presidential v/s Parliamentary Form of Government in India

Yes India must have parliamentary form of government. Since India has world's 2nd highest population so, presidential form of government is not suitable.

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.

India needs presidential form of government because during emergencies, the parliament will take a long time to give out a solution due to the number of people present in the parliamentary meeting, but in presidential form of governing, the government can give quick resolutions which can help the nation. Another thing is that presidential government lets you choose the leader directly so that mean your thoughts are being heard, but in parliamentary, you have to choose a few representatives and those few representatives will choose the PM.

Therefore India needs a presidential form of government.

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.

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.

India should have the parliamentary form of government because in this system, the Government is responsible to the people through their representatives. However, this is not so in Presidential form of Government.

1. In the Parliamentary form of government, there are two heads. One is a nominal head while another is the real head. For example, in India, the President is the nominal head while the Prime Minister is the real head. The President of India is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government. But in the Presidential form of government, there is only one head. The President of America is the head of state as well as the head of government.

2. In the Parliamentary system, the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister is responsible to the legislature. But in the Presidential type, the President and his ministers are not responsible to the legislature.

3. In the Parliamentary type, the Council of Ministers will lose office if it loses the vote of confidence / no confidence. But in the Presidential type, the President cannot be ousted from power by a vote of no-confidence. He can be removed from office though impeachment which is much more difficult than the vote of confidence/no confidence.

4. In the Parliamentary system, the government does not enjoy a fixed tenure. "For example, in India the government can stay in power for five years. But any time during this period, the government can be removed from power through a vote of no-confidence. In the Presidential system, the President has generally a fixed tenure because it is not easy to impeach him.

5. There is not strict separation of powers in the Parliamentary type. The ministers are also members of the legislature. But, in the Presidential type, the principle of separation of powers is strictly followed. In the US, the President and his Ministers (Secretaries) are not members of the Congress.

6. In the Parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is not fully free to choose his ministers. He has to choose them from among the members of Parliament. But in the Presidential system, the President enjoys much more freedom in selecting his ministers. He selects them from a much wider field taking into account their experience and expertise.

7. At the time of crisis the Presidential executive is more successful in taking prompt and bold decisions than the Parliamentary government.

8. The Presidential system of government provides more political stability than the Parliamentary form of government.

9. As the government in the parliamentary system is responsible to the Parliament, it is more democratic and respectful of public opinion than the Presidential executive which is not responsible to the legislature.

I guess its parliament form of government which is better to countries like India because we can not take risk of d future of our country by handover the full authorities to the president. It may lead to anarchy. While in parliamentary form the people of all religions I mean the representatives together have an good ideas and share opinions by discussions about d progress of our incredible INDIA where I believe a strong decision taken in groups never fail and fall "UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL".

India is developing not because of the political system. India is developing in-spite of the political system. With proper and accountable form of governance, India could have by now reached a super power status given the resources and the abilities of the people.

India experimented with parliamentary system of democracy, copied largely from UK. Unfortunately it has not worked for India. India as a nation is deeply divided into several groups with conflicting interests. Indian democracy in practice has not been able to abolish caste system that divides the majority community into groups with conflicting interests despite many laws. Accountability is the major causality in the Indian style of democracy.

The Political parties often give importance to the winning chances based on the group and caste following a candidate has. Even in cabinet formation, caste plays its role, many times in the formation of Cabinet. Caste and communal divide made India into one of the most corrupt nations in the world. Some credible estimates put the annual corruption at 50 Billion dollars.

To fight the twin causes of corruption and caste, may be India need to debate on a presidential form of government on the US model. A strong executive President does not need the support of caste and communal vote banks. He can go ahead with reforms that make the administration more transparent, less corrupt and more account to the citizens and the nation. A powerful and committed, and accountable administration is the need of the hour.

As we all know that INDIA is a democratic country which means people choice, that is "for the people, by the people and of the people. INDIA is the land culture, more then 1000 of religions exist here, different people leave here they have different interest which may create conflict of interest between them. So I think that there should be parliamentary form of government so that every people representative can give their views. Now INDIA has developed a lot in many sectors and more to develop also and this can be done by the people only. We cannot take risk with our country, cannot follow presidential form of government like USA. So according to me there should be parliamentary form of government for in future also.