As the government does not enjoy majority in the Upper House, many important Bills have got stuck and reform process is decelerated. With current system of election to the Rajya Sabha, the coalition at the helm of affairs, NDA, is unlikely to get a simple majority in till July 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who won the last year election with a thumping majority, is unable to bring about many changes he intends. The democratic set-up is helping the old political order to continue even after it has been dethroned. The system of partial retirement of Rajya Sabha members — 1/3rd once every 2 years — makes not only obsolete, defeated political ideologies thrive, but also any radical change in the country tedious and sometimes impossible.