New Delhi, Feb 13: Referring to former BJP stalwart Arun Jaitely, Congress slammed BJP over appointment of ex-SC judge as governor of Andhra Pradesh. Congress claimed that this practice is a threat to the independence of the judiciary.
The government on Sunday appointed six new faces as governors, including Nazeer, who was part of the historic 2019 Ayodhya verdict, and triple talaq. Then CJI Ranjan Gogoi was offered Rajya Sabha MP seat as soon as he retired.
Cornering the govt on this move, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tagged a video on Twitter of former Union minister Arun Jaitley saying in 2012 that “pre-retirement judgements are influenced by post-retirement jobs”.
“Adequate proof of this in the past 3-4 years for sure,” Ramesh tweeted along with the video. Asked about Nazeer’s appointment, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said at a press conference, “One of BJP’s tall leaders sadly no more with us, Arun Jaitley, on September 5, 2013 in the House and several times outside stated that ‘the desire of a post-retirement job influences pre-retirement judgements. It is a threat to the Independence of the judiciary’.”
“We are not talking about persons or individuals. Personally, I have very great respect for Nazeer. I know him, it is not about him at all. As a matter of principle we oppose it, as a matter of principle we believe it is a matter of great diminution and a great threat to the Independence of the judiciary for the reasons I have just quoted on the excerpt I played out,” Singhvi said.
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