Nominative local governance

Rajendra Prasad, President of Constituent Assembly of India, felt that elected representatives must be qualified with education.  

Work of a Legislative assembly is to frame and pass laws. Judges inquire points, pass judgements based on these laws. Lawyers argue cases based on these laws. And it is mandated that Judges and lawyers, be qualified by appropriate education, to perform these tasks. 

It is only fair, that people who pass laws are qualified, with a basic education, so they know the implications, positives and negatives of the laws they enact.

The federal governance's involvement goes beyond Defence, Railways, Post and Telegraph. 

In the name of being a "Welfare State", it creeps into all spheres of social life, and enacts laws. Such law makers will be better off, if they are educated enough to have working knowledge, of these processes. 

When Rajendra Prasad expressed these views, Nehru resisted. And felt that Prasad's observations can be taken to mean, that the Constituent Assembly not having confidence in his governance. Nehru threatened to resign. And succeeded in passing all his bills. 

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi   -    Uttiramerur ballot processes