This is how the Ecosystem works.
They are Sickular and self-righteous. They may be shameless and could be regionalists - Trinamool Congress, DMK or Samajwadi; they could be communists and make virtue out of Muslim appeasement and of course they could be the Congress party !!
I know of international media organisations - otherwise quite upright but decided to spare Mamata Banerjee over the Kolkata horror story !
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| Sickularism in Assam for long justified Bangladeshi influx !! |
Before CJI D Y Chandrachud, who were lambasted by the Congress party and others included CJI Dipak Misra and CJI Ranjan Gogoi.
BJP MP Sambit Patra slammed the Opposition for “doing politics” over the Chandrachud hosting PM Narendra Modi at his house for a religious event and questioned if the former PM Dr Manmohan Singh)attended Iftar parties with the then CJI B Balakrishna.
“Should the different pillars of democracy not converge? Should they be enemies? Should they have no courtesies towards each other? This is the beauty of democracy that there are different behaviours while being on and off duty,” he said
Referring to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent group photo with US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Sambit Patra said,
“You have an objection to the PM meeting the CJI but no objection when Rahul Gandhi meets Ilhan Omar, the Chinese Premiere and signs MoU…They have a problem with Ganesh Puja, but did the former PM Manmohan Singh not attend Iftaar parties?
That is also a festival and this Ganpati is also a festival, then why this difference?”
Look at the utter hypocrisy only a few months back, the same Sickular school of politcs and wise people had hailed CJI Chandrachud for a few orders against the government including the one on Electoral Bond.
Subsequently, they also presumed that Chandrachud would be probably a better choice as PM Modi's chief rival for the battle of 2024.
But now that he invited Modi and held the religious Aartis, the heaven had fallen.
Opposition parties questioned 'how justice will be delivered' at all in cases where the Modi government — the largest litigant before courts — is a party, with the chief justice of India now attending a private religious event with Modi being made public.
“The point is that the judiciary and executive generally operate in a system of checks and balances. This (the prime minister attending a private puja at the chief justice’s residence) was an example of excessive and unnecessary cordiality which destroys the image of separation of the executive and the judiciary and possibly even the appearance of impartiality,” said 'sickular' counsel Sanjay Hegde, senior advocate in the Supreme Court.
He might have missed CJI Balakrishna attending Iftar hosted by Manmohan Singh.
Others also chipped in pretty fast.
The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms (CJAR) referred to a few instances that have raised concerns of impropriety including former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi hearing his own case, former Calcutta high court judge and now MP Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigning from his post and immediately joining the BJP, former judges becoming Governors and Rajya Sabha members “without any cooling off period“.
That a former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) M S Gill was nominated to Rajya Sabha and then became Union Minister under Manomohan-Sonia regime was no fault. Justice Jagannath Mishra, also an ex-CJI, too had become Rajya Sabha MP. It was liberal and 'okayed' probably because Mishra had joined the grand old party called the Congress - whose history of abusing power stands exemplified by the Emergency of the 1970s and several other occasions.
Justice Dipak Misra had retired in 2018. But he courted controversy and ire of the Sickular school of opportunists and double standards.
Even as he contributed to the strengthening of individual rights, he allegedly 'concentrated power' in the office of the chief justice. They said - his was a reign of dichotomy. Misra sadly earned the dubious distinction of being the first chief justice against whom an impeachment motion was attempted.
In the 2018 judges’ row – who have been wrong, the four ‘rebel’ judges or the Supreme Court Chief Justice Dipak Misra himself? Or both sides?
Was it a good issue to come out in the media?
Is it true some senior journalists and a prominent lawyer actually anchored the entire media extravaganza?
During the debate in Parliament, many members spoke on who is ‘supreme’ – the Supreme Court or Parliament. Some insisted as members of Parliament they were
‘supreme’ as they were elected by the people.
One member even suggested, “no one in the country is more supreme than the people”.
During CJI Misra's stint another development had cropped up.
On December 5, 2017, when the title suit was taken up in the Supreme Court, then Congress leader and senior counsel Kapil Sibal had pleaded the court not to take up the Ayodhya title suit till after the 2019 elections.
He had argued that any development in the legal case is likely to be used towards political ends.
The plea was hardly entertained.
On CJI Ranjan Gogoi, the Sickular anguish is expected as he presided the bench that passed the Ayodhya verdict on Nov 9, 2019. That itself was a shocker for Sickulars. Of course, at a later stage he was soon nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha.
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