Step-by-step explanation:
1.The manner in which presiding officers of Parliament are undermining the principle of separation of powers of the state’s different organs is unacceptable.
2.The practice of serving officials of the executive taking on positions of responsibility in the secretariat of either the Rajya Sabha or the Lok Sabha must stop forthwith.
3.This is not exactly a new practice. There have been several instances of serving officials of the executive moving into the staff of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats.
4. As serving members of the executive on deputation, they continue to be answerable to the President, the constitutionally designated head of the executive.
5. These officers then serve two masters, who are supposed to check and balance each other.
6.The legislature makes laws and also holds the executive to account.
7. Elected members ask questions in Parliament, to which the executive must provide answers.
8.MPs work in committees, whose findings influence laws and force the government to justify its conduct.
9.If a functionary whose primary loyalty is to the executive plays a role in drafting reports and queuing questions and deciding which ones would qualify for supplementary questions in Parliament, the process of the legislature holding the executive to account can be compromised.
10.This has to be avoided. Article 98u of the Constitution says that the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha will have their own secretariats. This has to be followed in letter and spirit. That is all.