‘UNPARALLELED IN DEMOCRATIC HISTORY OF WORLD’

Jaipur: Vice- President Jagdeep Dhankhar while addressing the 83rd All India Presiding Officers Conference here, he said that the judiciary cannot intervene in lawmaking. He again criticised the scrapping of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act in 2015 by the apex court. Dhankhar said he does not subscribe to Kesavananda Bharati case ruling that Parliament can amend the Constitution but not its basic structure.

“In 1973, a wrong precedent started. “In 1973, in Kesavananda Bharati case, SC gave the idea of basic structure saying Parliament can amend the Constitution but not its basic structure. With due respect to judiciary, I can’t subscribe to this,” Dhankhar, who has been a SC lawyer, said. He asked, “Can Parliament be allowed that its verdict will be subject to any authority. The executive has to follow laws & judiciary can’t intervene in law-making.” Talking about judiciary scrapping NJAC Act, he said it was ‘a scenario perhaps unparalleled in democratic history of the world.’