Theme 1: Institutional Functioning and Accountability
Parliament: Overcoming the Functional Crisis, restoring the centrality of debate and consensus making
A dialogue with Dr. Seshadri Chari, journalist, author, strategic analyst and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party; and Shri Pavan K. Varma, Author, diplomat and former Member of Parliament ( Rajya Sabha )
Discussant: Shri Chakshu Roy, writer and Head. Legislative Outreach, PRS Legislative Research
Introduction and Chair: Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, formerly Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The IIC Diamond Jubilee Cluster Group on Challenges to Democracy will present a series of four theme based programmes with each theme further divided to focus on three issues. The first dialogue in a series of three, focuses on the working of the Parliament which is unquestionably the most important indicator of the strength of a democracy
