{"id":89296,"date":"2022-12-08T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T01:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89296"},"modified":"2022-12-08T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T01:17:18","slug":"why-is-parliament-silent-on-voiding-of-njac-asks-vice-president-jagdeep-dhankhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/why-is-parliament-silent-on-voiding-of-njac-asks-vice-president-jagdeep-dhankhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is Parliament silent on voiding of NJAC, asks Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where a duly legitimised Constitutional prescription has been judicially undone, said the Vice-President in his maiden speech as RS chairman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In any democracy, parliamentary sovereignty is inviolable, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said in his maiden speech as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session of parliament. He chided the two Houses for not taking cognisance, over the last seven years, of the 2015 Supreme Court judgmentsetting aside the Constitutional amendment to constitute the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second time in the last week that the Vice-President has raised the issue of \u201cjudicial incursions\u201d into the legislative domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Dhankhar pointed out that the amendment had been passed with unprecedented support by both Houses and approval from 16 State Assemblies. However, on October 16, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled \u2014 by a 4:1 majority \u2014 that it was not in consonance with the basic structure of the Constitution, and scrapped the legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018People\u2019s mandate disregarded\u2019<\/strong>
There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where a duly legitimised Constitutional prescription has been judicially undone, said the Vice-President. He called it a \u201cglaring\u201d instance of a severe compromise of parliamentary sovereignty and disregard of the mandate of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cbasic structure\u201d, Mr. Dhankhar asserted, is the prevalence of primacy of the mandate of the people reflected in the parliament. \u201cIt is disconcerting to note that on such a momentous issue, so vital to democratic fabric, there has been no focus in the Parliament, now for over seven years. This House, in concert with the Lok Sabha, being custodian of the ordainment of the people, is duty bound to address the issue, and I am sure it will do so,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PM welcomes VP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the Vice President, followed by felicitations by other members. Hailing Mr. Dhankhar as a leader who has both the elements of jawan<\/em> (soldier) and kisan<\/em> (farmer) in him, the Prime Minister said that the House was fortunate to receive his able and effective leadership at this juncture in history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cOur Vice-President is a kisan putra<\/em> (farmer\u2019s son) and he studied at a Sainik school. Thus, he is closely associated with jawans<\/em> and kisans<\/em>,\u201d said Mr. Modi. He also expressed the hope that Mr. Dhankhar would keep the house engaged with his ready wit, just as his predecessor Venkaiah Naidu did with his one-liners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting that India has just assumed the presidency of the G20, the PM said that this is also a time when India has commenced its journey into Amrit Kaal<\/em>, referring to the 25 years remaining before the centenary celebrations of the country\u2019s Independence. \u201cNot only will Amrit Kaal<\/em>\u2019 be a period of development and glory for the country, it will also be an occasion when India will play an important role in giving direction to the world,\u201d Mr. Modi said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no parallel to such a development in democratic history where a duly legitimised Constitutional prescription has been judicially undone, said the Vice-President in his maiden speech as RS chairman In any democracy, parliamentary sovereignty is inviolable, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said in his maiden speech as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89298,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89296\/revisions\/89298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}