Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA government at the centre in the year 2000 constituted Nation Commission for Review of the Constitution with Justice (retired) Manepalli Narayan Rao Venkatachaliah as its chairperson submitting report of the Commission in the year 2002. But present NDA government did not utilize opportunity to implement important recommendations of the Commission in its rule during the period 2014-2019 that too BJP having absolute majority at its own. Now with only few months remaining of the tenure of present government, it is not practically possible to implement recommendations of the Commission.
However it is time that a discussion on report of the Commission may be initiated so that all political parties especially ruling BJP may incorporate their acceptable recommendations part of their poll-manifestoes for forthcoming Lok Sabha elections of the year 2019. It is regretting that it is quite usual to ignore recommendations of Commissions set at high public-cost to the exchequers even by the political rulers having set up these Commissions.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL