Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Friday stated India’s democracy wants smaller models of governance to actually perform.
“A fundamental problem with the design of our democracy is that our states are too large. We have twenty times as many seats for parliament as the United Kingdom,” Banerjee stated.
Banerjee was delivering the twenty seventh Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture, “Democracy on the Ground: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why?”
Banerjee stated that though India’s inhabitants is 20 instances that of the UK, it has 656 seats within the UK Parliament in comparison with 543 in India. He argued that the sheer measurement makes it troublesome for all voters to get details about their legislators.
Citing her subject experiments with Delhi municipal elections, Banerjee stated that if voters are given details about the efficiency of these elected, their voting sample modifications. “There is almost nothing that an MLA does that can actually reach out to you (voters). So leaders at the grassroots level mean little to our voters. This is a structural problem in our democracy,” Banerjee he stated.
In this program, Justice Hima Kohli of the Supreme Court additionally revived the reminiscences of Justice Bhandare. Justice Kohli stated, “Very few people know that after marriage she joined the Law College and when she was the mother of two children, she joined the Maharashtra Bar Council.”
Justice Bhandare was a former choose of the Delhi High Court who died in workplace on the age of 52.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
