India is federal country. We have a federal constitution. Our country consists of 28 states and 8 UTs.

One of the mandatory feature of federalism is bicameralism in which the upper house of parliament have representatives of states. The duty of the representatives of the states is to protect the interest of the states.

Similarly, in India we have upper house of parliament known as Rajya Sabha/Council of States/house of states. Its members are elected from all 28 states and 3 UTs (Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir and Puducherry) having the provision of legislative assembly. As UP elects 31 Rajya Sabha members-they are not representatives of public but are representatives of UP state and their duty is to protect the interest of the UP in our Rajya Sabha.

Rajya Sabha is a permanent house and can never be dissolved. So, Rajya Sabha can not be abolished and our parliament can not be unicameral.

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Anil Gupta

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