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“The recent spate of judicial activities has created problems for the operation of parliamentary democracy in India.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Principal Organs of Government

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The "spate" of the 1990s coincided with hung Parliaments, three Prime Ministers within a year and a run of corruption scandals. The charge that it hurt parliamentary democracy has substance, but it confuses symptom with cause — courts moved into a space a weakened Parliament had already vacated — and it overlooks where the Court…

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