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The Constitution Review Debate

On April 26, 1998, when Home Minister L K Advani spoke about the need for a constitutional review in the course of a lecture in Patna -- a feeling he reiterated in Varanasi this week -- he ushered the debate out of the pages of the BJP-led government's National Agenda into the hurly-burly of Indian socio-political life.

Does the 49-year-old Constitution require modification? Should India abandon the Westminster model and opt for a Presidential system? Rediff On The NeT begins a debate on whether the Constitution needs change and if the Indian people are ready for it.

• Fifty years of solitude
• 'If the Westminster type is not working, there is no guarantee that a new type of Constitution will also work'
• Them Counterfeits & Their Contentious Issues
• Stop the review!
• 'We need to rejuvenate our democratic process'
• 'We are third rate, unfit to be a democracy'
• 'The President's powers have to be reviewed. He can't just be a dummy'
• Why we need to change our Constitution
• Constitutional review is a ruse to usher in dictatorship, says Mulayam
• Non-Congress Opposition parties feel review of Constitution is unnecessary
• No question of changing Constitution's secular nature, says BJP

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