Mr. President, Sir, I also support the amendments moved by Mr. Kamath and Mr.Saksena. I confess I am not very happy over this entire chapter relating to the appointment, powers, and activities of the Finance Commission. The Finance Commission is so much more additional patronage in the hands of the executive, and will act, in so far as it is empowered under this article to act, against the inherent rights of a sovereign Parliament. It is impossible to agree that by this provision no power that normally vests in a sovereign Parliament is taken away, because, even according to article 261, the right to consider the memorandum, or the right to submit the memorandum to Parliament, will result only in a kind of postmortem examination of the action taken, which, if I may say so, will encourage only fruitless discussion, where the opposition may for opposition’s sake, only find fault and where constructive suggestions would not be in order, because it will be only a debate on action actually taken, which cannot be remedied and which, therefore, can give occasion only to venting, as it were some past spite.
