New Delhi, April 22 -- "Neither Parliament, Nor the Executive is supreme, The Constitution is supreme", a sharp constitutional debate has erupted between Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and senior advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal, following the Supreme Court's recent directive that the President of India must decide within three months on bills reserved by governors for her assent.

The controversy has reignited the perennial question: which institution is truly supreme in India's constitutional framework-the Parliament, the executive, or the Constitution itself?

Addressing students at Delhi University, Vice-President Dhankhar, who also serves as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, emphatically declared that "Parliament is supreme" and t...