@mwana

the US prez is still popularly elected,there are only 2 cases when the popular vote winner lost to the electoral college winner,kindly note that the drafters of the US constitution were aristocrat farmers who wanted to prevent' government by mob rule' or as we call it nowadays democracy....i say again...handing over the power to parliarment is simply accepting the country to be a parliamentary dictatorship and with our current crop of mps's wud u dare imagine that?

really like in britain,there is no president. In india the president and PM are elected by parliament.
when you involve the people in a voting excercise it need not be in vain. becouse executive power is vested in the people but is delegated to the president/pm.

I am all for a system of checks and balances but i dont think setting up a high threshold for a president and then usurping the power to a prime minister who is only accountable to what maybe a rogue parliament is the right way to go.