Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Sunday that the supremacy of Parliament as the sole architect of the Constitution is unquestionable. While addressing an event organised to celebrate the 74th Constitution Day, he further quoted Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to insist that the Constitution was meant to not just define the organs of the State but to also define the limits to their powers.
He added that “any incursion in the exclusive domain of the Parliament will be Constitutional aberration, apart from being antithetical to democratic essence and values.”
Mr. Dhankhar’s remarks came as he spoke at a Law Ministry event at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi to celebrate Constitution Day – the day the Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of India in 1949. These comments come even as the current Union government has publicly taken issue with the running of the higher judiciary – specifically the appointment of judges through the Collegium system.
