CPI(M) on Thursday said the ‘NaMo-RaGa cacophony’ of Congress and BJP’s claims to prime ministership was threatening to replace parliamentary democracy with ‘some sort of a presidential form’ of governance.
A day ahead of the AICC session which could confirm Rahul Gandhi as the party’s prime ministerial nominee, the major Left party said, ‘Whatever may be the Congress decision, the NaMo-RaGa cacophony is seriously eroding the foundations of Indian parliamentary democracy by threatening to replace it with some sort of a presidential form of democracy.’
Noting that any government formed after an election was accountable to the people, senior party leader Sitaram Yechury said, ‘In such a scheme, any projection of an individual as the PM candidate simply does not work as he/she may well be defeated in the constituency from where he/she is contesting. Recollect that even mighty Indira Gandhi had lost election in 1977.’
A day ahead of the AICC session which could confirm Rahul Gandhi as the party’s prime ministerial nominee, the major Left party said, ‘Whatever may be the Congress decision, the NaMo-RaGa cacophony is seriously eroding the foundations of Indian parliamentary democracy by threatening to replace it with some sort of a presidential form of democracy.’
Noting that any government formed after an election was accountable to the people, senior party leader Sitaram Yechury said, ‘In such a scheme, any projection of an individual as the PM candidate simply does not work as he/she may well be defeated in the constituency from where he/she is contesting. Recollect that even mighty Indira Gandhi had lost election in 1977.’