Government Trying To Place RSS-minded People In Judiciary: Kapil Sibal
New Delhi: The mess around India’s Judiciary does not seems to stop as Congress party alleged that the government of attacking national institutions and trying to install people having RSS ideology in the judiciary. Congress leader and advocate Kapil Sibal alleged that the BJP has appointed RSS ‘pracharaks’ in important positions especially in educational institutions of the country. And now it is trying to appoint RSS pracharaks or persons having their ideology in the judiciary wing.
“They have filled educational institutions with RSS pracharaks. Now they are making attempts to fill the judiciary with RSS pracharaks or people with their thinking,” he said.
The former law minister said, “This is not acceptable to us and will oppose it. If need be, we will also raise this issue with the judiciary.”
He also accused the government of not keeping any of the institutions safe in the country and there are continuous attacks and attempts to control the media and the judiciary.
“If this happens, democracy will be weakened,” he said.
“This government’s thinking is to control the judiciary, as it feels the judiciary is going out of its control,” he said, and referred to a letter written by Justice Chamleshwar of the Supreme Court, raising many concerns over direct intervention of the central government in the judiciary.
He said that this was the first instance that the central government has written directly to the Karnataka chief justice, instead of writing to the Chief Justice of India at first.
“Slowly every institution in the country is being attacked under this government…The prime minister has first ruined the institution of Parliament and now the media and the judiciary. This government is continuously attacking the judiciary…,” he said.
Mr Sibal went further to accuse the government of doing “selective appointments” in the judiciary by according approval to appointment of people of their selection and not appointing others.
This is the main reason, according to him that there are large scale unfilled posts in the country.
When asked about his alleged dubious business dealings with a person who was under investigation for money-laundering, Mr Sibal said, the website that Union minister Smriti Irani referred to support her allegations, also clearly states that “there is no evidence to suggest Sibal interfered in Goyal’s Case”.
The minister was completely ignoring this, he said.
The recent comments by Minister Kabil Sibal are in the backdrop of Senior Supreme Court Judge Chelameswar seeking a full-court discussion from Chief Justice of India Deipak Misra in a written letter complaining the government’s interference in the appointment of judges to high courts.
Then after the letter, the Congress party with the support of several opposition parties led efforts to bring an impeachment motion into the parliament against the current Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.