constitution: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu calls upon lawmakers to bring ‘behavioural change’

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday has mentioned dysfunctional legislatures are a subversion of the “noble precept of constitutionalism” and known as upon practically 5,000 lawmakers in Parliament and state assemblies to convey a few behavioural change.

Delivering the primary Pranab Mukherjee memorial lecture, Naidu mentioned Indian democracy has withstood the check of time and the credit score for this goes to the poor and illiterate commoners who braved all odds to face by the chosen instrument of parliamentary democracy for bettering their lives, “by even foregoing day by day wages on the day of voting”.

Nonetheless, the conduct of lawmakers inside Parliament and state legislatures in previous few years has emerged as a “main space of concern”. “Whereas the legislatures are meant for deliberation on problems with wider public concern and making of efficient legal guidelines for the good thing about the folks and the nation, ‘disruption’ has emerged because the chief instrument of parliamentary conduct and functioning. Disrupted and dysfunctional legislatures are a subversion of the noble precept of constitutionalism. They end in blatant violation of the core rules of democracy,” mentioned Naidu.