NaiDU talks aBoUt veDic parliament

one earlier in 2015 when his book was published. At a Gujarat Assembly election rally in Sanand, PM Narendra Modi accused the Indian dignitaries who attended Aiyar’s dinner, of “colluding” with Pakistan to influence the outcome of the Gujarat election results. This has set the tone for Parliament’s winter session, which effectively starts tomorrow, the day Gujarat elections results will come. The Congress is getting ready to ask the PM, irrespective of the Gujarat results, to “arrest all Indians” who attended the dinner, provided he has the “evidence” to prove the nexus with Pakistanis. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu never misses an opportunity to share nuggets of wisdom. The other day he chose Shukracharya’s Niti Shastra, an ancient Indian classic on leadership, teaching primary ethics of right behaviour, to talk about “Vedic Democracy and Parliament”. It fitted his profile perfectly as Naidu is also the Chairman of the House of Elders (Rajya Sabha). He was delivering a lecture on the importance of legislature. “It is a wrong belief that India had acquired its Parliamentary system from foreign nations,” said Naidu Citing Niti Shastra, Naidu said that India derived its form of democracy from it. “The republic forms of governments, deliberative representative bodies and democratic self-governing institutions existed in our Vedic Bharat.” According to him, the general assembly of people was then known as “Samiti” (Lok Sabha), the assembly of elders was called “Sabha” (Rajya Sabha), members of the Sabha were called “Sabhasad” and the presiding officer was known as “Sabhapati”. In today’s system, Naidu is in favour of automatic suspension of unruly Members of Parliament.