BJP High Command issues show-cause notices to Karnataka members for violation of party discipline
Bengaluru: The BJP has issued show-cause notices to various leaders of the party, including MP Renukacharya and Katta Subramanya Naidu, who are supporters of BJP State President BY Vijayendra, under charge of violating party discipline.
Rebel leader Basanagouda Patil Yatnal had been issued a similar notice about 45 days ago. On Tuesday, another rebel leader and legislator BP Harish, and two other legislators ST Somashekhar and Shivaram Hebbar received notices for embarrassing the party. Somashekhar and Hebbar had informally identified themselves with the Congress and criticized BJP leaders.
BJP Central Disciplinary Committee is learned to have cracked the whip on the members, with member-secretary Om Pathak stating in the notices that their unwarranted comments on the BJP’s internal issues in public amounted to violation of disciplinary code. He also demanded explanation from the members within 72 hours.
The notices are being seen as the BJP High Command’s reminder to members to follow the party’s disciplinary code.
The action, incidentally, has been taken just ahead of choosing the party president for Karnataka.
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Unemployed 'youngsters like cockroaches' become media, activists; attack system: CJI
New Delhi (PTI): Likening some unemployed youngsters to cockroaches, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday said they go on to "become" media, social media and RTI activists and start attacking the system.
The comments came while a bench of CJI Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was pulling up a lawyer for "pursuing" a senior advocate designation. It said there were already "parasites" in society who attack the system and asked the petitioner whether he wanted to join hands with them.
"The entire world may be eligible to become senior (advocate), but at least you are not entitled," the bench told the petitioner lawyer.
A visibly anguished CJI observed that if the Delhi High Court would confer senior advocate designation upon the petitioner, the apex court would set that aside seeing his professional conduct.
The CJI also referred to the kind of language used by the petitioner on Facebook.
"There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them?" he said.
"There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don't get any employment or have any place in profession. Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone," he said.
The bench also asked the petitioner whether he did not have any other litigation.
"Is this the conduct of a person who seeks to be designated as a senior advocate?" the bench asked.
It said senior advocate designation is something that is conferred on a person and is not to be pursued.
"You are pursuing it. Does it look proper?" the top court said, asking whether a senior advocate designation was a status symbol to be kept ornamentally.
It also observed that it wanted to ask the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to verify the degrees of many of those who were wearing black robes as there were serious doubts over the genuineness of their degrees.
It said the Bar Council of India would never do anything on this issue as they "need their votes".
The petitioner apologised to the bench and sought permission to withdraw the petition. The bench allowed the withdrawal of the petition.
