2. Few states in India have Legislative Council also.

Examine their utility

and also comment on the way politics has played a role in their
continuance.
India has a bicameral system of parliament. At the state level, is the legislative
council. The constituent assembly adopted its provision to have an informed and
wider debates and also sharing of work between two houses. Its utility can be
summarized as:

1. It provides for checking hasty and ill-conceived decisions of the popularly

elected legislative assembly.
2. Eminent personalities are able to get nominated, who would otherwise have to
face the hurdles of direct election.

However, Legislative councils have been affected by politicization in recent times

and their continuance has been based on keeping up political careers of defeated
legislators.

1. The creation of legislative council in Tamil Nadu has been a contention from the
past 25 years with rival parties constituting and repealing the same.
2. It has been argued that different parties have used it to park their leaders who
have been unable to win assembly elections.
3. As the expenses of constituting such councils are borne by exchequer,
opposition parties have used it to delay legislations from ruling parties in the
assembly, without entering into meaningful debates for a consensus.

Legislative councils were envisaged to bring debates and discussions in a wider

scope and for providing representation of different electorates like members of
municipalities, graduates and eminent personalities. They must therefore work for
this very objective.