NEW DELHI: The entire demo. Cretic system is threatened by the rejection of the executive’s accountability to Parliament which is Inherent in the government’s attitude to the JPC’s recommendations on past-scam action, says former Prime Minister V, P. Singh.
“That is an even bigger issue than corruption’” he told Business Standard.
Pointing out that even Hitler held elections, he asked what democracy was all about, if the executive treated Parliament as just a formality, Arguing that the government was not at liberty to reject the joint committee’s unanimous report as if it were an inquiry commission’s report, he said it was a dangerous convention, for which the country would pay & price sooner or later.
“That means the ultimate authority in the political mechanism and balance of institutions has passed totally to the executive, “he added, although the accountability of the executive to Parliament was a central pillar of the system of parliamentary democracy.
He pointed out that the erosion of institutions had been a major issue in the 1989 elections.
Singh spoke of another dangerous theory, that corruption was inevitable despite changes of pavement. “At least that is our contribution, to prove that it is possible, he said, pointing out that no charge of corruption had been made against oven a single junior minister in his government.
It was not that they had not enough time, he added. The round of corruption began with six months of this government taking power
Article extracted from this publication >> August 19, 1994
