“Parliament represents the will & aspirations of one billion plus people and is the link between the people and government. If Gangotri gets polluted, neither Ganga nor any of its tributaries can stay unpolluted. It is incumbent upon all Parliamentarians that they maintain the highest standards of democracy and parliamentary functioning. Parliament, like other organs of the government, was not sovereign and owed its origin and authority to the Constitution and derived its functional responsibility from, and discharged its responsibilities within the framework of the Constitution.”
– President Pranab Mukherjee