Almost all appointments, decisions of PM Modi involve tearing of Constitution, convention: Congress
New Delhi (PTI): The Congress alleged on Thursday that almost all appointments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and decisions taken by him were done by "tearing" convention and the Constitution without consultation.
The remark comes on a day the Supreme Court observed that the appointment of a new election commissioner was effected in a "tearing hurry".
"Supreme Court has observed that appointment of new Election Commissioner was done in a 'tearing hurry'. Nothing new. Almost all appointments and decisions of Mr Modi has involved tearing of Convention and Constitution with no Consultation (sic)," All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of media and publicity Pawan Khera wrote on Twitter.
The Supreme Court questioned the "haste" and "tearing hurry" in appointing Arun Goel as an election commissioner.
The Centre resisted the observations, with Attorney General R Venkataramani saying the issue pertaining to Goel's appointment should be looked into its entirety.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice K M Joseph perused the Centre's original file pertaining to Goel's appointment as an EC and said, "What kind of evaluation is this? Although, we are not questioning the merits of Arun Goel's credentials but the process."
As the bench questioned the "lightning speed" with which Goel was appointed as an EC, the Centre through Venkataramani urged the bench not to make observations without looking into the entire issue pertaining to the appointment process.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
