The Chief Minister of the Northern or North Eastern of the Tamil dominated region and, if there was a muslim majority region then the Chief Minister of that region must be included. It is very important to ensure the democratic participation of all the ethnic nationalities in governing the country. On the other hand, is also important to politically integrate the forces which were pushed towards disintegration in the past. The other point is related to the decision making of this Council. It is proposed in the draft that the decision making process in this Council will be on the basis of the majority decision.
Decision making through consensus is indispensable for the governance of the multi-ethnic polity.
Democratic decision making should be based as far as possible on consensus. We will have to question the whole democratic system if the consensus decision-making process cannot be applied to the Constitutional Council. Therefore, one needs to think how best this mechanism could be strengthened and widened to ensure the participation of diversified forces within a democratic framework. I personally feel that we need a federal form of government in order to transform the majoritarian democracy into a consensus democracy. Bi-cameral legislature is inevitable for this purpose.