PM advisor moots new Constitution but faces 'isolation

New Delhi: After the chairman of the powerful Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) came up with a radical suggestion in an article that India should have a new Constitution, the EACPM has distanced itself from Bibek Debroy's article and said it in no way reflects the views of the Government of India.

"The recent article by Dr @bibekdebroy was in his personal capacity. In no way do they reflect the views of EAC-PM or the Government of India," EAC-PM tweeted on Thursday.

EAC-PM is an independent body constituted to give advice on economic and related issues to Government of India, specifically to the Prime Minister.

Debroy had earlier this week authored an article in Mint titled ' There is a case for 'we the people' to embrace a new Constitution' and termed the present Constitution a 'colonial legacy'. "Much of what we debate begins and ends with the Constitution.

A few amendments won't do. We should go back to the drawing board and start from first principles, asking what these words in the Preamble mean now: socialist, secular, democratic, justice, liberty and equality.

We the People have to give ourselves a new Constitution," Debroy wrote. (PTI)