August 20, 2023

Has the Constitution Failed us or have we Failed the Constitution?

President KR Narayanan had posed the rhetorical question to save the Constitution from a previous assault on it. Satya Narayana Sahu in his article in NEWSclick dated 20th August,2023 cites Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) who has laboured on the right-wingers’ covert theme of jettisoning the idea of a secular India in a piece he published in Mint on 15th August, 2023.

SN Sahu’s NEWSclick article

Bibek Debroy quotes a University of Chicago – Law School study of 2009 which mentions the average life span of written Constitutions as 17 years. It is interesting though to understand why Bibek Debroy wants another Constitution.

Bibek Debroy’s article “Thers a case for we the people to embrace a new constitution” in the Mint

Author : anilsrivastava@sdindia.com

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