Hours after former Supreme Court Judge S Abdul Nazeer was appointed because the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Congress chief Rashid Alvi on Sunday (February 12) tried to solid aspersions on the Ayodhya verdict and the integrity of the apex court docket.
“Giving government jobs to retired Judges is unfortunate,” he informed ANI. Rashid Alvi then cited a report, claiming that over 50% of judges are appointed by the federal government, in some capability, publish their retirement. “The Faith of people in Judiciary is on the decline,” he brazened it out.
The Congress chief lamented how the previous Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, was nominated to the Rajya Sabha and that Justice (retd.) S Abdul Nazeer (who was part of the constitutional bench that delivered the Ayodhya verdict) has now been ‘incentivised’ with the job of a Governor.
“SC का अयोध्या पर फ़ैसला केंद्र सरकार के दबाव में आया था”
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Rashid Alvi pic.twitter.com/xc1uYlGtpo
— News24 (@news24tvchannel) February 13, 2023
“Several people had been questioning the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, even claiming that it was delivered under the pressure of Modi govt…This move only bolsters that doubt in people’s mind,” Rashid Alvi insinuated that judges are in some way hands-in-gloves with the Union authorities.
Congress’ claims over the Ram Mandir challenge have been weird and contradictory. In 2020, the social gathering had claimed that the credit score for the Ram Mandir should go to Rajiv Gandhi, then deleted the tweet. The social gathering had additionally been attempting very laborious to claim that the Modi authorities had nothing to say credit score for in the entire challenge. But Rashid Alvi’s latest remarks appear to allude that it was the Modi authorities that “influenced” the judiciary, which casts aspersions on the Congress social gathering itself as a result of they’ve held energy on the centre for a lot longer than the BJP, and lots of former judges have discovered appointment as governors or MPs beneath the Congress social gathering too.
Congress’ deleted tweet from 2020
He additionally mentioned that the present-day authorities should attempt to maintain Judiciary separate from the Executive in accordance with the Article 50 of the Indian Constitution.
The Congress chief then went on to say that the Governors in a number of States, together with Maharashtra, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, parrot the political ideology of RSS and the BJP within the hopes of being rewarded by them.
In 2019, the Central authorities took the determination to assign Z plus safety to Justice S Abdul Nazeer, who was additionally part of the bench that criminalised Triple Talaq, after stories surfaced that he and his household had been beneath menace from the Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI).
Rashid Alvi calls for proof of the surgical strike
Rashid Alvi has been the controversy’s favorite youngster. Last month, he stirred the hornet’s nest by sowing seeds of doubt in regards to the surgical strike carried out by Indian armed forces in opposition to Pakistan.
#WATCH | We’ve confidence in our safety forces however can’t belief BJP govt. Govt says it has video (of surgical strike) so what’s incorrect with Digvijaya Singh asking govt to point out it? We’re not asking for proof (of strike) however govt ought to present video it claims it has:Rashid Alvi, Cong pic.twitter.com/ULtlUyBgLJ
— ANI (@ANI) January 27, 2023
While talking to ANI, he remarked, “We’ve confidence in our security forces but can’t trust BJP govt. Govt says it has a video (of the surgical strike) so what’s wrong with Digvijaya Singh asking govt to show it? We’re not asking for proof (of strike) but govt should show the video it claims it has…”