
Ironically, the outcome of the experience of the past few months may result in Parliament now insisting that every international agreement be thrashed out, to the last nut and bolt, before India signs the same — this will be the unwarranted by-product, which is sure to curtail the flexibility of the executive and its ease of operation. Such a situation would have been wrought upon itself by the executive.
The writer was cabinet secretary to the GOI between 1996 and 1998