CPI endorses President's stand

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JAN.28. The CPI today endorsed the President, Mr. K.R. Narayanan's strong reservations about the Vajpayee Government's decision to review the Constitution. The party said it ``fully supports'' the President's stand that the Constitution had stood the test of time and that the recent political instability was not a sufficient ground for reviewing it.

The party's central secretariat pointed out in a statement here that the BJP had been campaigning for a review to bring in changes that would ``cripple our parliamentary system and cultural democracy and reduce accountability of the Government.'' ``The President has put forward timely and cogent arguments against such attempts,'' it said.

The party pointed out that while it was not against making amendments to the Constitution it was firmly opposed to a ``roving'' review as it would amount to putting a question mark on the Constitution itself.

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