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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi Bill will sow the seeds of absolutism -Faizan Mustafa

Delhi Bill will sow the seeds of absolutism -Faizan Mustafa

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published Published on Mar 22, 2021   modified Modified on Mar 23, 2021

-The Hindu

If passed in its current form, the NCT of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021 will strip the elected government of almost all its powers. It must be referred to a select committee and not passed in haste.

The political theorist Jean Louis De Lolme had once famously observed that “British Parliament can do everything but make a man a woman, a woman a man”. The English statesman Lord Burleigh had remarked in a similar vein that England could “never be ruined but by a Parliament”. In India, the Constitution, and not Parliament, is supreme; yet, at times, parliamentary enactments give the indication that the latter can do anything. At a time when the Freedom House report has downgraded India as a “partly free” country and V-Dem’s report has rubbed salt on our wounds by terming India an “electoral autocracy”, the NCT Bill, 2021, introduced in the Lok Sabha last week, will further dent our international reputation.

This author has several disagreements with both the reports, yet who can deny that we are not doing enough to preserve our democratic capital and unnecessarily enacting laws or coming up with policies that have possibilities of tilting our democracy towards authoritarianism. The overriding powers given to the Governor-General in the Government of India Act, 1935 was opposed by the leaders of our freedom movement, and this opposition prevented the legislation from being enforced at the Centre. The Delhi Bill takes us back to British era.

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The Hindu, 22 March, 2021, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/nct-bill-electoral-autocracy-constitutional-democracy-7238825/?fbclid=IwAR2NZKBLb2bXr1focJGEveuzGC_TYASzhXood8l43PzMqPR7FIr1ijXuOFA


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