Constitution facing challenges from autonomous institutions, including judiciary, says former Supreme Court Judge

Former Supreme Court justice B. Sudershan Reddy observed that the Constitution was facing challenges from each autonomous institutions, including the judiciary, whose work was to uphold it.

Citing the arguable verdict by a justice of the Tamil Nadu High Court connected the petition related to the lighting of the ineffable lamp astatine Subramaniya Swamy temple successful Thirupparankundram, helium said the courts, similar different institutions, were nether the work to adhere to the Constitutional norms.

Participating arsenic main impermanent successful a seminar connected ‘Challenges successful implementing the Constitution’, jointly organised by the All India Lawyers’ Union (AILU) and Jana Vignana Vedika present connected Sunday, Justice (Retd.) Sudershan Reddy said his connection mightiness look to beryllium a sweeping one, but it was not without a basis, portion pointing retired that determination were aggregate judgments that were perceived to person undermined Constitutional principles.

“The process of judicial appointments and transfers has besides been rather often doubted, requiring remedial action,” helium said.

Referring to the Governors’ refusal to work retired the speeches fixed to them by the elected governments successful the Legislative Assemblies and their increasing inclination to locomotion retired was unfortunate, helium observed.

He emphasised that the defiance of the Council of Ministers by a Governor should beryllium dealt with appropriately. The inability to impeach a Governor for misconduct, contrary to the proviso to region the President of India oregon the Vice-President done owed procedure, was a Constitutional vulnerability, helium asserted.

‘SIR objectionable’

Further, Justice (Retd.) Sudershan Reddy said the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was objectionable arsenic each imaginable efforts were being made to destruct non-citizens, migrants and overseas nationals connected unjustifiable grounds.

The information that the “reservoir of powers,” which the Election Commission of India (ECI) possessed, was meant to guarantee escaped and just elections should ne'er beryllium forgotten.

He said helium delimitation of constituencies had its ain repercussions, including immense fiscal implications, and faulted the repeated “felicitations” of Union Ministers by the Chief Ministers of States, saying it was atrocious successful the national strategy of governance.

JVV State president K.S. Lakshman Rao, erstwhile MLCs K. Nageshwar, V. Balasubramanyam and M. Geyanand, AILU National Executive president Sunkara Rajendra Prasad and State caput Narra Srinivasa Rao were among those who spoke.