Role of People's Representatives in a Parliamentary Democracy

Abstract

The foundation of the parliamentary system of governance in India, the world's largest democracy, was laid during the British rule itself. After independence, the makers of the Indian Constitution had taken the decision to adopt the parliamentary system not only because it already existed in our country, but because it was decided that it is a more democratic system even in indirect democracy. In this system, the work of the government is evaluated daily. And the executive is accountable to the legislature, the representative body of the people, that is, indirectly the control of the people is on the Council of Ministers. If the executive tries to be autocratic, he can be removed by a motion of no confidence. Along with this, by giving the right of judicial review to the judiciary, the legislature has also been warned that the legislature too Work according to the constitution and discharge your constitutional obligations well, but today looking at the work of the legislature in India, the question arises whether the decision of the framers of the constitution was wrong? Were they very sure of their future generations that they would discharge their constitutional obligations with great honesty and would protect the values ​​of democracy.  The entire political environment prevailing in the country, in which there is a continuous series of accusations and counter-allegations between political parties, obstruction in the proceedings of the legislature, increasing number of scams, increasing number of people's representatives of criminal tendency, etc. It's only natural.