Chennai: The Constitution envisages governments to be run by collective authority or collective wisdom, but in certain cases it is not even followed in letter, far less in spirit, the Madras high court saidon Saturday.
“The Constitution is silent on the nature and qualification of the political parties which put up candidates for election to legislative bodies. It may not have been in the contemplation of the Constitution-makers that though the form of government both at the Centre and in the states was fashioned after the Westminster style. In fact, some of them would be run on the presidential basis as in the United States with a single person or a few persons exercising real authority,” the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy added.