“Delegitimizing the judiciary is the death knell of democracy,” he said.
New Delhi:
Rajya Sabha chief Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said he would relinquish his vow and fulfill his pledge if he did not react constitutional obligation.
Senior Congress leader Pramod Thiwaii raised the issue in the House, with his senior colleague and Opposition Leader Mallikarjun Kharge seeking, “If a Lok Sabha member (Sonia Gandhi) speaks outside, it should not be discussed in the Rajya Sabha. If the chairman Comment, unfortunately. This never happened…everything said here should be removed and retracted. Please remove it.” He added that if it was not removed, it would set a bad precedent.
Union minister and leader of the House of Representatives Piyush Goyal, who is elected by both houses of parliament and vice-president of India, should reflect that the House of Representatives and the supreme constitutional authority have been slandered.
Some other members also commented on this issue.
Mr Dhankar said, “…these opinions are about what I said from this chairman on December 8. These opinions are extreme because the ruling party can recruit the chairman Rajya Sabha and the vice president to make the judiciary Delegitimize.” He said that if he did not respond, there would be “demeaning consequences” and tried to give the impression that the chairman would Be a party to a harmful and sinister design.
“The delegitimation of the judiciary means the death knell of democracy. This partisan battle must be resolved with each other,” Mr Dankar said.
Chairman Rajya Sabha further said: “I can assure the members that I have done a great deal of homework with all who know the subject, interacted with the former Secretary-General before concluding that I will relinquish my vows and I will Will stay away from my vows. If I do not respond, it is a constitutional duty.” On 22 December, Mr Dhankhar called UPA president Mrs Gandhi’s remarks “inappropriate” that the government was seeking to “delegitimize the judiciary” , and urged political leaders not to let senior constitutional posts be constrained by partisanship.
He also said Mrs Gandhi’s statement was far from what he had in mind as delegitimizing the judiciary was beyond his consideration.
Congress Party chairwoman Sonia Gandhi on December 21 accused the center of a deliberate attempt to “delegitimize” the judiciary, describing it as a “disturbing new development”.
She also accused the government of working to downgrade the judiciary in the public eye.
“A disturbing new development is a systematic attempt to delegitimize the judiciary. Ministers and even senior constitutional authorities have been called in to deliver speeches attacking the judiciary for various reasons,” she said.
(This story was not edited by NDTV staff and was automatically generated from syndicated feeds.)
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