Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2017

Parliamentary Democracy in India: Issues and Challenges

Alludu. Jagan

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 Our constitution provides for parliamentary form of government. We have borrowed the constitutional features of several democratic countries. But our parliamentary model is predominantly based on the British system. The Head of Government in our system, the Prime Minister, can hold office only so long as he commands the confidence of the Lok Sabha. Confidence of the House is reflected in existence/continuance of majority support – whether it be of a single party or of a coalition of parties. This feature can, and does, cause instability in governance. In Presidential democracies, the Head of Government, the President is directly elected by the people and cannot be removed from office except in circumstances of high crimes and misdemeanour established through impeachment process.  A parliamentary system is a system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive anch derives its democratic legitimacy from, and is held accountable to, the legislature (parliament); the executive and legislative anches are thus interconnected. In a parliamentary system, the head of state is normally a different person from the head of government. This is in contrast to a presidential system in a democracy, where the head of state often is also the head of government, and most importantly, the executive anch does not derive its democratic legitimacy from the legislature. This paper underlines the parliamentary democracy and related aspects in Indian political environment.

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ALLUDU.JAGAN, Parliamentary Democracy in India: Issues and Challenges, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾4 | April-2017

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