Supreme Court shouldn't fail people's trust
Supreme Court is the lone pillar that can uphold the democracy under all circumstances because it can always insist on measures that can rectify to set the country on the track of democracy when legislative or executive goes on a different track.
The court has to caution the government when when it does not work to uphold the democratic values. After Narendra Modi's NDA government came into power, people are forced to place all their hopes on Supreme Court decisions to uphold their interest.
Misuse of Election Commission, interference in CBI and Army, series of fake encounters in Gujarat, reservation etc, there are way too many issues that are awaiting a final sentence by SC to reach conclusion while upholding democracy.
These are the issues that will decide the future of the country. Apart from all those that cases, just as the government's decisions are coming under scanner, the cases that are reaching the doorstep of Supreme Court are increasing rapidly. Now under such circumstances, if there is a situation where the supreme court's credibility becomes questionable, who would save the democracy of the nation?
This question is not being raised by general public, but by persons who held the most responsible position in the Supreme Court, a justice has such concerns now.
Former justice Joseph Kurien has made these observations and this seems to be a case of the fence eating the crop.
In a recent statement to the media, Kurien has said Justice Deepak Misra was influenced by external elements in the recent times and that was detrimental to the Supreme Court since the highest legal institution seemed to have lost track with respect to some very significant cases. One cannot dismiss those words as the rant of a retired person. He had revealed these facts with his colleagues even when he was serving in the court.
This was made evident in a press conference some of the justices held on earlier occasion. This wasn't a personal grouse one held against another colleague. Few of Dipak Misra's colleagues had voiced their concern to the chief justice himself when he held the office. Their main complaint was that Misra was handing over very significant cases to some junior judges without any experience in handling them.
When Misra didn't heed to their words, they were forced to call a press conference. It was for the first time in the history of Supreme Court and the country that such a press conference was held ever.
Politically too, this press meet had created some ripples and Misra seemed to have rectified his stand after that only to some extent, as per Kurien.
Kurien has made another explosive statement now.
His allegation is that Misra was being influenced by external forces.
But he is hesitant to reveal the sources of those ‘forces’. However, guessing what those forces' could be, is anybody's guess.
While people trusted Supreme Court could control the unhindered run of politicians, justice Deepak Misra kneeled before the very legislative.
A weakened judiciary is the reason behind unhindered and unhesitant execution of dictatorial conduct and implementation is unconstitutional measures by Narendra Modi government.
If some of the judges hadn't spoken against this, the future would have been even more scary. If a person who occupies the highest post in judiciary becomes subservient to the ruling dispensation?
And how does one have faith that they'd be served with justice when the Prime Minister works to his convenient and not by the book.
If the other judges had kept silent, future would have been darker than we'd like to assume. At the same time anti constitutional forces are getting bolder with time in India. At a time like this, Kurien's allegations have shows a new reality that doesn't look very bright.
At the same time if Supreme Court also gives anti-constitutional viewpoint through it's judgements, there might be judgements that would even be against the very constitution we believe in.
Manusmriti might take the place of constitution in the coming days using the judiciary route. A sword of fake encounter is hanging on the neck of PM's Man Friday. But for him to be punished, the judiciary needs to retain its independence. If not, people on the guise of policeman may commit murders and Judiciary may be forced to offer their respects to him. Ram Janma Bhoomi and Babri Masjid are the big bones of contention to the country. No one can serve justice to this case except for supreme Court.
At the same time, allegations on the court by a former justice are not very bright. Anybody who cares for democracy needs to come together now to create awareness among people about Misra's leniency towards some particular ideology which is against the spirit of law and constitution. Through this, we also need to uphold the values of democracy.
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NDA sweeps bypolls to four assembly segments in Bihar
Patna (PTI): The ruling NDA in Bihar on Saturday swept the bypolls to four assembly segments, retaining Imamganj and wresting from the INDIA bloc Tarari, Ramgarh and Belaganj, receiving a boost ahead of the assembly elections due next year.
Candidates of the Jan Suraaj, floated recently by former political strategist Prashant Kishor with much fanfare, lost deposits in all but one seat, in a clear indication that the fledgling party, despite claims of taking the political landscape in the state by storm, needs to cover much ground.
The biggest setback for the INDIA bloc, helmed by the RJD, came in Belaganj, a seat the party had been winning since its inception in the 1990s, but this time lost to the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the arch-rival of its founding president Lalu Prasad.
The JD(U) candidate Manorama Devi, a former MLC, defeated by a margin of more than 21,000 votes RJD’s Vishwanath Kumar Singh who made his debut from a seat that fell vacant upon election to Lok Sabha of his father Surendra Prasad Yadav, a multiple term MLA.
The margin of victory was greater than the 17,285 votes polled by Mohd Amjad of Jan Suraaj, whom the RJD may have liked to blame for its defeat by causing a split in Muslim votes.
JD(U) national spokesman Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said, "The people of Bihar deserve kudos for rejecting the negativity of the opposition and reposing their trust in Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Under his leadership, the NDA will win more than 200 seats of the 243-strong assembly in 2025."
The RJD also suffered an embarrassing defeat in Ramgarh, where Prashant Kishor’s prediction of the party “finishing third or fourth” came true. The forecast had caused Sudhakar Singh, son of state RJD president Jagadanand Singh, the MP from Buxar who had won the assembly seat in 2020, to threaten that Jan Suraaj cadres in the constituency will be “beaten up with sticks”.
Singh’s younger brother Ajit finished a distant third after BJP winner Ashok Kumar Singh, a former MLA, and Satish Kumar Singh Yadav who fought on a ticket of the BSP, which has little foothold in Bihar.
Jan Suraaj, though, was hardly a factor in Ramgarh, where its candidate Sushil Kumar Singh polled less than four per cent votes.
The BJP also pulled off a stunning victory in Tarari, which falls under the Arrah Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by CPI(ML)’s Sudama Prasad, who had won the assembly segment for two consecutive terms.
CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav lost, by a margin of a little over 10,000 votes, to BJP debutant Vishal Prashant, better known as the son of local strongman Sunil Pandey, who was formerly with the JD(U) and had joined the saffron party a few months ago.
Jan Suraaj had initially announced that it was fielding a former Vice Chief of the Army in Tarari but later disclosed that he could not contest because of technical reasons. Its candidate Kiran Singh got less than four per cent votes.
The most respectable performance from Jan Suraaj came in the reserved Imamganj seat where its candidate Jitendra Paswan stood third, polling well over 20 per cent votes.
The seat, however, went to Deepa Kumari, daughter-in-law of Union minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who defeated RJD’s Raushan Kumar by a slender margin of less than 6,000 votes.
Manjhi, who heads the Hindustani Awam Morcha, vacated Imamganj earlier this year upon getting elected to Lok Sabha from Gaya.
With the exception of Ashok Singh in Ramgarh, the winners in all the seats shall be making their debut in the state assembly.
