Mangaluru: Vidhana Parishat Chief Whip Ivan D'Souza today criticised the BJP’s bandh-call terming it as a blackmail tactic.

Addressing reporter at DK district Congress committee office here, D’Souza said the BJP had called for a bandh, but the farmers did not come to the streets. They have decided to give time to Chief Minister Kumaraswamy. Hence the BJP’s bundh call has failed completely.

“Chief Minister Kumaraswamy had stated that he would waive loans if he forms the government on his own. Now the coalition government exists. But he never denied the loan waiver. This decision has to be taken up after discussing with other leaders and reviewing the state's economic situation. People and farmers have understood this. But the BJP did nothing when they were in power. Now, they are trying to misguide people. Earlier, BJP leaders Eshwarappa and Jagadish Shettar had said that the central government would waive the loans borrowed from co-operative banks. But it was not possible from them,” Ivan D'Souza said.

He further said “The BJP is saying that the alliance of the coalition government is unholy. The BJP was given a chance to form the government in spite of getting 104 seats. But Yeddyurappa ran away without facing trust vote. The BJP may have got more seats than the Congress. But the Congress is ahead of the BJP in the state by 1.8 percent vote share.”

“We have discussed the reasons behind the Congress’ defeat in the district. This is due to the BJP's promotion of communal heartedness in the district. Under the leadership of the coalition government, we will correct those mistakes in the future,” he added.

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New Delhi, Oct 24: Justice Sanjiv Khanna was on Thursday appointed the 51st Chief Justice of India.

He will take oath on November 11, a day after incumbent Justice D Y Chandrachud demits office on attaining the age of 65.

Justice Chandrachud took over as the CJI on November 8, 2022.

Justice Khanna will have a tenure of a little over six months as CJI and would demit office on May 13, 2025.

"In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, Hon'ble President, after consultation with Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India as Chief Justice of India with effect from 11th November, 2024," Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal posted on X.

Justice Khanna was appointed an additional judge of the Delhi High Court in 2005 and was made a permanent judge in 2006. On January 18, 2019, he was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court.

Born on May 14, 1960, he studied law at the Campus Law Centre of Delhi University.

Some of the notable judgments of Justice Khanna in the Supreme Court include upholding the use of electronic voting machines in elections, saying the devices were secure and eliminated booth capturing and bogus voting.

He was also part of the five-judge bench that declared the electoral bond scheme, meant for funding of political parties, as unconstitutional.

Justice Khanna was a part of the five-judge bench, which upheld the Centre's 2019 decision abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution which granted a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Justice Khanna, who is the senior-most judge after the outgoing CJI, and the executive chairman of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA), had granted interim bail to the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam cases, for campaigning in Lok Sabha elections.

He is the nephew of former apex court judge H R Khanna, who was part of the landmark verdict propounding the basic structure doctrine in Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.

The retirement age of Supreme Court judges is 65 years, while high court judges demit office at the age of 62 years.

The Centre recently asked CJI Chandrachud to name his successor.

According to the memorandum of procedure (MoP) -- a set of documents guiding appointment, elevation and transfer of high court and Supreme Court judges -- the law minister writes to the CJI to name his or her successor.

Law Minister Meghwal had written to CJI Chandrachud asking him to name his successor.

The MoP says the senior-most judge of the apex court is considered fit to hold the office of the CJI and the views of the outgoing head of the judiciary have to be sought "at an appropriate time".

The MoP, however, does not specify the time limit for the initiation of the process of recommending the name of the successor CJI.