Parliament is sole architect of Constitution; judiciary or executive cannot tinker: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar

Parliament is the sole architect of the Constitution of India and neither the judiciary nor the executive can intervene in its affairs, Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankar said on Sunday..He added,"When the Constitution was evolved by the Constituent Assembly, the message was loud and clear...It is in the exclusive domain of Parliament and it is Parliament alone which is the architect of the Constitution to the exclusion of any other agency...be it executive or judiciary.".Parliament cannot script a judgment of the Supreme Court and, similarly, the Supreme Court cannot script a law for us, the Vice-President explained. "Parliament is reflective of the will of the people and people are there through a legitimised mechanism. Supremacy of Parliament as the sole architect of the Constitution is there and not amenable to intervention by executive or judiciary. Judiciary also survives when it is sanctified by Parliament. The mandate of people cannot allow any incursion in the will of people. Any incursion will be Constitutional aberration," he underscored. .The Vice-President made the remark while speaking during a plenary session of the Constitution Day celebrations at the Union Ministry of Law and Justice. .Dr BR Ambedkar never envisioned that there could be an incursion into Parliament's powers and there is a need to ensure there is no sacrilege of either organ, Dhankar went on to comment during his speech."Governance is dynamic and it needs collaborative effort and issues arising must be ironed out. There must be a convergence of attitudes. I am a foot-soldier of the judiciary and independence of judiciary is important to me...and it is unquestionable...but the time has come that we have a mechanism for a structured interaction between the heads of affairs so that the issues do not come out in the public domain," he emphasised. The Vice-President further said that the legislature must be free to enact laws, the executive should be free to implement any law and the judiciary should be free to interpret laws. "Constitutional provision allowing interpretative power to the Supreme Court regarding legislation is a small slit and it cannot be a floodgate. We have to extremely worry about this and I am sure the people with the kind of nationalism they have, these issues will be thrashed out so that Bharat rises and soars," Dhankar added. .Former PM Indira Gandhi insulted Constitution.In his address, Dhankar appealed that everyone must reaffirm allegiance to constitutional core values. He also pointed out that some are "getting out of line.""The darkest period in the period of our democracy was the proclamation of Emergency and it was not less than a sacrilege of the Constitution of India and it was an insult to the Constitution by our former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Such misadventure cannot be thought of in the present times," he said. He went on to praise the ruling dispensation for its move to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave Jammu & Kashmir special status."Please see how Article 370 made the lives of the common people of Jammu and Kashmir hellish. We are grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Article 370 is not a part of the Indian Constitution. Sardar Patel was left out from dealing with Jammu and Kashmir and dealing with its integration. The nation paid a heavy price for it and now thankfully we are back on the tracks. It is soothing to note that our growth trajectory is incremental in the last decade. India's growth is not pyramidical, but a plateau sort. Everyone is prospering.".The Vice-President also weighed in on the 'Bharat v India' debate, saying,"The respect for our passport was never this high as it is now. The disruptive technologies is one we have to live with and it is our bedfellow and we are addressing the issue with positivity. Affirmative action has ensured that our rise is exponential. But I have found that some have weak digestive system...It is duty of every Indian to believe in Bharat...you can play politics.. but when it comes to nation and governance, you cannot play politics."