India President Pranab Mukherjee cautioned the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi against taking the “ordinance route” for normal legislations while stressing that “growing tendency” to disrupt Parliament could lead to “paralysing policy formation”. Modi government had opted for eight ordinances including those for raising the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the insurance sector and e-auctioning of coal mines in as many months leading to the President even seeking explanation from the government on urgency for some of these Ordinance. The President had given his assent to the Ordinance to bring changes in the land acquisition law after three senior ministers including Arun Jaitley has explained the reasons to him. President said to meet certain exigencies and under compelling circumstances, the framers of the Constitution deemed it necessary to confer limited legislative power upon the Executive by way of promulgation of Ordinances when the legislature is not in session and circumstances justified immediate legislation. Seeing his resistance, the government has decided not to bring any more Ordinance before the budget session, which would witness a slew of reform oriented legislations. His caution is significant amid talks of the government planning to convene a joint session of Parliament to pass legislations in view of the deadlock it had faced in the Rajya Sabha, where the opposition has the majority. He also referred to the supremacy of regional parties in states affecting the strength of national parties in the Rajya Sabha and said their (Rajya Sabha) consent is required to avert extreme cases through the joint session, which is a Constitutional provision but it is not practicable.