"Constitution Should Be Evolove From Parliament Not...": Vice President
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It is the primacy of the Constitution that determines the stability, harmony, and productivity of democratic governance, and Parliament reflects the mandate of the people,Vice President said.
The evolution of the Constitution has to take place in Parliament and no other "super body" or institution, including the judiciary and the executive, has any role in it, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Sunday.
It is the primacy of the Constitution that determines the stability, harmony, and productivity of democratic governance, and Parliament reflecting the mandate of the people is the ultimate and exclusive architect of the Constitution, he said.
Vice President Dhankhar's remarks, made at the release of a memoir of former Tamil Nadu governor P S Ramamohan Rao, came a day after Law Minister Kiren Rejiju invoked the "Lakshman Rekha" on the relationship between the executive and the judiciary.
The vice president said, "A constitution has to evolve from the people through Parliament, not from the executive. The executive has no role in evolving the Constitution and no other institution including judiciary."
