Uneet Kumar Singh

Supreme court in the recent year or so has laid profound emphasis on the constitutional morality and its prime position in Indian Jurisprudence. Indian constitution was a culmination primarily of a political struggle and not of a social struggle. Unlike America and France, India did not go through a revolution before adopting our constitution. And rightly so, our journey towards independence is called as a 'freedom struggle' and not an 'Indian Revolution'. Societal pariahs which existed before independence continued afterwards. The task of social transformation was entrusted upon constitution and its institutions. And therefore, its no wonder, that constitution and its institutions often find themselves on the opposite side of social morality. 1. Importance of Constitutional Morality Constitutional morality is a tool to achieve ideals envisioned and engraved in our constitution. Realization of these ideals demand adherence to the constitutional morality. T...

With the announcement of election dates on 11 March, country is ready to elect its new Lok Sabha. The term of the current 16 th  Lok Sabha comes to end on June 3, 2019. In a parliamentary democracy like ours, Parliament as an institution is mandated to debate, legislate and keep the executive and government of the day accountable. As we get ready for an unparalleled display of democracy wherein more than 900 million voters will exercise their right to vote, it’s a perfect time to look back and evaluate how effective our choices, that we made 5 years ago, have been. Hours of work done by Lok Sabha There exists a disappointing trend when it comes to hours devoted for legislative and other productive parliamentary businesses. The number of work hours put to productive use have largely been showing a declining trend from 1 st  Lok Sabha onward. The current Lok sabha has failed to arrest that slide in any major way. Having said that, it did perform better than th...

With the growing clamor for a grand alliance against BJP, Prime minister has derisively called such an attempt as "Maha Milaavat". He tries to bring home the point that a government of single party majority is good for nation in general and its economy in particular. However a look at the growth trajectory of the country represents altogether a different picture. In 70 years of Independence, country has been ruled by single party government for around 40 years and for remaining 30 years it has been under a coalition government rule. To get a true picture lets consider the below graph. Source: World Bank data The above graph clearly shows that India has witnessed a decent growth rate in the last two decades that have been dominated by coalition governments. Term of UPA-1 is a phase of unparalleled growth story in India's economic history.  The graph plotted above reflects the data from 1969 to 2017. In these 49 years, roughly speaking country has been under si...