BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad backs letter by 600 lawyers to CJI against 'group trying to influence verdicts'
CJI) Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, expressing serious concerns against the actions of a specific interest group aiming to undermine the judiciary's integrity, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged that some people, including those who are close to the Congress establishment, have always taken a very grim view at times about the judiciary.
Prasad said that the Indian judiciary is an extraordinary institution and has got every right to decide any issue in the way it wants.
"...It is indeed saddening that some people, including those who are close to the Congress establishment, have always taken a very grim view at times about judiciary, depending upon what kind of judgments have come. These are the people who at one time talked of committed judiciary. These are people who at one time hailed the supersession of judges by the Congress government in the 1970s...Indian judiciary is an extraordinary institution. We are very proud of it," the BJP MP said.
He further said, «More than 600 lawyers, including eminent lawyers like Harish Salve have publicly written expressing their concern. Judiciary has got every right to decide any issue this way or that way. That is what India's Constitution has given them the power and to question that is grossly unfair.»
Earlier, PM Modi also backed the concerns flagged by the senior lawyer and said that it was Congress culture to browbeat and bully.
«To browbeat and bully others is vintage Congress culture. 5 decades ago itself they had called for a „committed
