Chief Minister Not Attending Assembly Is Against Basic Structure Of Constitution

Hon'ble Odisha Chief Minister finding time to be present in the Kalinga Stadium for the recently concluded Junior men’s Hockey World Cup Tournament but not able to attend the winter session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly raises important constitutional issues and merits a discussion.

Chief Minister Not Attending Assembly Is Against Basic Structure Of Constitution

Hon'ble Odisha Chief Minister finding time to be present in the Kalinga Stadium for the recently concluded Junior men’s Hockey World Cup Tournament but not able to attend the winter session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly raises important constitutional issues and merits a discussion.

Our Founding Fathers while framing the Constitution deliberated on the type of government India should have. It was noted that being a non-Parliamentary system, the Congress of the United States could not dismiss the Executive while in a Parliamentary system, and Government must resign the moment it lost the confidence of the majority of the members of Parliament. It was considered that a non- Parliamentary Executive being independent of Parliament tends to be less responsible to the Legislature, while a Parliamentary Executive being more dependent upon a majority in Parliament became more responsible. Under the non-Parliamentary system, the assessment of the responsibility of the Executive is periodic. It takes place once in four years in US by the Electorate. In England, the assessment of responsibility of the Executive is both daily and periodic. The Daily assessment of responsibility which is not available under the American system framers of the Constitution felt was far more effective than the periodic assessment and far more necessary in a country like India. Our Constitution adopted the Parliamentary system of Executive preferring more responsibility to more stability. Parliamentary system is the most basic structure of our Constitution.