Sushma bats for Presidential system of governance

New Delhi, Nov 19 (UNI) Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today argued for reviewing the electoral system and replacing it with Presidential system of governance to overcome demerits witnessed in the Parliamentary system where the country is headed by a Prime Minister, who is incapable of mustering support within his own Parliamentary constituency.

Stating that Parliamentary system has its own 'demerits', Ms Swaraj, who is Deputy Leader of the BJP in Rajya Sabha in her article in 'Samadhan', a special supplement of Kamal Sandesh, a publication brought out by Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, said that a leader in the present system fails to strike a direct rapport with the people.

The electorate elect their representatives who in turn choose a Chief Minister in a state or Prime Minister at the federal level and the system leaves scope for manipulations and making and unmaking of the alliances. If it is a one-party rule, there is less scope for such possibilities but during the last decade, the era of coalition, the scope for manipulation are great, she said.

To get rid of the current malaise where the political parties were according importance to castes than the merit of the candidate or his commitment to the party and ideology. The process got vitiated by the money, caste and muscle power and there was an urgent need for changing the environment.

She said if a Prime Minister is to be chosen by an all India vote, no leader could ignore any part of the country be it Jammu and Kasmir or desert state of Rajasthan, the peninsular south or the far away north-East. The leader will have to be fully acquainted with pan Indian diversity and understand the problems of the country and come out with composite and comprehensive solution. Curses like caste, regionalism, linguistic barrier would cease to exist and the country will knit into a unit, she argued.

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