The Administrative Reforms Commission Chairman has criticized the conduct of the President by saying that the President should imitate the Prime Minister because the PM is the head of the government in Indian system of the governance.

The ARC chairman Veerappa Moily said that President should work as an arbiter between the three organs of the governance in India such as Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary.

Moily said that our Presidents forget that the President have an important constitutional role to play. There is a constitutional space to be occupied but unfortunately, everybody thinks that they should have the power of the Executive, Judiciary and Legislature.

Moily said:

This is a duty of President to discharge the constitutional role given to the chair of President. When President thinks that they should imitate Prime Minister or somebody that shows his position wrong.

If President works according to the constitutional role given to the chair, it would restrict any discontent, frustration or encroachment upon somebody’s right.

At the same time, Moily said that the president is not there to give mere speeches. The President has to exercise an important constitutional authority granted to him by the constitution of India. He may serve as the negotiator to resolve the problems if any conflict comes form the clash of the powers of Legislature, Executive and the Judiciary.

According to him, the president post is not available for anybody to throw his or her hat in. Nobody can become an aspirant for the presidential post. The person for the top job of the country should come with national consensus.

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