India needs fail-safe governance: Joshi

By Our Senior Reporter

COIMBATORE, JAN. 28. A ``fail-safe'' system of governance which can withstand failures in administration, should be evolved for India, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Union Cabinet Minister, Human Resource Development (HRD) and Science and Technology (S & T), said here on Friday.

Speaking to presspersons at the Circuit House during a brief visit to the City, Dr. Joshi said that the system of governance should have checks and balances to ensure that human failures did not result in a breakdown of governance.

``New international economic institutions have emerged which did not exist when the Constitution was drafted,'' he said, and observed that the Constitution should protect the economic interests of the country in the changing global environment.

Moreover, the whole world was ``apprehensive about the instability of India'', for the nation was facing internal and external threats far more serious than that faced by many other countries around the globe. After five decades of Independence, during which the Constitution had been amended 79 times, it was necessary to examine democratic institutions such as the judiciary, legislature and executive, to determine whether the ``objectives of the Constitution as adumbrated in the Preamble, had been fulfilled or not.''

Experiencing three elections in three years had ``thrown the country into a phase of political instability'', which had been contained with ``great difficulty and hard work'', by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government.

Dr. Joshi said that it was ``astonishing and shocking'' that the Congress (I) and some Leftist parties had opposed the call given by the Prime Minister, Mr. A. B. Vajpayee for appointing a committee to review the Constitution. It was the Congress supported by the Communists, which had tried to ``strangle democracy by imposing Emergency.'' Thereafter, provisions had been introduced into the Constitution, to ``prevent the recurrence of such catastrophes.''

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