{"id":156215,"date":"2021-12-27T20:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=156215"},"modified":"2021-12-27T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:49:16","slug":"how-pmo-letter-to-ec-challenged-institutional-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-pmo-letter-to-ec-challenged-institutional-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"How PMO letter to EC challenged institutional balance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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News<\/span><\/b>: Earlier, a letter written by the Law Ministry to the Election Commission (EC) on November 15, has come under criticism. This letter created debates regarding India\u2019s institutional structure and its traditions and conventions. The recent press communiqu\u00e9 of the Law Ministry offer certain logical conclusions and clarifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Functioning of the Election Commission \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the clarifications given by the communiqu\u00e9 of the Law Ministry?<\/h5>\n

The PMO had only addressed its communication to convening the meeting to the cabinet secretary, law secretary and secretary, legislative department. It was the secretary, legislative department (SLD) who \u201cthought it appropriate\u201d to \u201cinvite officials of the Election Commission to this meeting\u201d.<\/p>\n

The text of the legislative department\u2019s letter has not been released. However, It is inconceivable for even a nodal department to take such an initiative on its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0Summoning CEC, EC to PMO is outrageous<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What needs to be done?<\/h5>\n

Follow constitutional and legal mandates<\/strong>: The national good requires that the three organs of the state and independent constitutional bodies function harmoniously in accordance with their constitutional and legal mandates. It also needs that their inter-relations should maintain each other\u2019s dignity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Follow the conventions and traditions<\/strong>: Like Kanhaiya Lal Misra said that the muscles, connective tissue and the coursing blood have given the institution like the High Court its strength, its resilience and even its glory. What Misra said about high courts applies generally to the polity as a whole.<\/p>\n

Conventions and traditions strengthened the foundations of Indian democracy in all its manifestations.<\/p>\n

The political class should show respect for independent institutions<\/strong>: The historical experience of the ages shows that all political power is inherently expansive. They use notions such as \u201ccommitted bureaucracy and judiciary\u201d and stick and carrot approach<\/p>\n

So, the consultations between independent institutions and the executive should occur, but the political class should show respect.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, It is time for the head of the organs of state and the institutions and the public to scrutinise the entire corpus of the Indian state\u2019s conventions to strengthen India’s democratic polity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more:\u00a0CEC\u2019s, EC\u2019s interaction with the PMO-Why this raises questions and breaches a red line<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source\u2013 This post is based on the article\u00a0<\/span>\u201cHow PMO letter to EC challenged institutional balance\u201d <\/span><\/b>published in\u00a0<\/span>Indian Express<\/span><\/b>\u00a0on<\/span>\u00a017<\/span><\/b>th<\/span><\/b><\/sup>\u00a0Dec 2021<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Earlier, a letter written by the Law Ministry to the Election Commission (EC) on November 15, has come under criticism. This letter created debates regarding India\u2019s institutional structure and its traditions and conventions. The recent press communiqu\u00e9 of the Law Ministry offer certain logical conclusions and clarifications. Must read: Functioning of the Election Commission… Continue reading How PMO letter to EC challenged institutional balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-156215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703523197},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}