First of all thank you to K Mohan and T M Sankaran for their comments and support and for directing me to those issues I missed.The provision of constitutional amendment is a real blessing our constitutional forefathers gave us and our constitution.Our forefathers gave us three provision for amending the constitution
1.Amendment of the constitution by a simple majority of the Parliament.
2.Amendment of the constitution by a special majority of the Parliament.
3.Constitutional amendment by special majority and consent of either whole or half of the states.
Amendments regarding salaries of the Parliament members,elections,new states etc can be passed by simple majority.Executive power of union,legislative powers between union and states etc comes under third category.Amendment in Fundamental rights and all those area not covered by first and third category falls in the limit of second section.
What are the defects of constitutional amendments?If we keep aside the provision of special majority,then constitutional amendment bills are very much like an ordinary bill.Constitutional amendment bills can be passed like any other ordinary bill provided a special majority.Special majority is the majority of two third members of each house.In the passage of ordinary bills there is a provision for joint sitting in case of a deadlock.This is to settle the issues amicably between the two houses.However there is no provision for a joint sitting between the two houses of Parliament in the case of constitutional amendment bills.The Parliament can amend the constitution in most cases without even consenting the state legislatures.Thus the scope of suggestions and consent of all the states is limited in constitutional amendment bills.These are some of the criticisms of constitutional amendments but the real reason is that we can't allow or tolerate criminals to rule us anymore.
When Ambedkar and other law makers started the hectic work of giving life to our constitution they would have never imagined how worse these corrupted politicians and bureaucrats perform in national integration and growth.They looked around and all that they saw was Mahatma Gandhi,Jawaharlal Nehru,Vallabhai Patel,Lal Bahadur Shastri etc,the very epitomes of truth,loyalty to our nation and its people only.But now look around.Can we confidently rely or believe any "leader"now.
Our constitutional amendments are at the mercy of cheap,selfish,corrupted and criminal politicians.The amendments they suggest will be a way to prosperity for them,not the laymen.If everything is running normal,then constitutional amendments is better than rewritting the constitution everytime.But the weapon is in the wrong hands.Even the guardian of our constitution,the judiciary,is corrupted or atleast they have shown us that they could be corrupted.Had Ambedkar ever dreamt of an India in its present condition?
A new constitution is what Indians dream of to rise anew and afresh.The poison is running through the veins of our constitution and no medicine can cure it except rewritting the constitution.
