The BJP also said that the move was to “degrade and denigrate” the judiciary as the Congress and other parties were getting exposed in the judgements related to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders.
“It is a sad day because the government is working in every possible way but the opposition is continuously trying to degrade and denigrate the institutions,” BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi told reporters here.
She said the opposition parties were constantly threatening to bring impeachment motion against people who chose to stand independently.
“So, on its own merit, the cases have fallen because these were all fabricated cases. There are evidences to the contrary and the fabrication could not go beyond a certain point. That is why the cases are falling and to cover up (this), they are using impeachment proceedings.”
The opposition move came a day after a Supreme Court bench headed by chief justice Misra rejected a public interest litigation for a special investigation team probe into the death of CBI court judge B H Loya, who was conducting a trial in the killing of gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh in Gujarat in which now BJP president Amit Shah was an accused.
Commenting on Naroda Patiya case in which a Gujarat minister was let off yesterday, Lekhi said the fact was that the so-called evidence pertaining to it could not stand the legal test.
She said the repeated exposures were showing how institutional integrity was compromised and how the “dirty tricks department” of the Congress was at work.
Accusing the Congress of interfering with the judicial system, Lekhi reminded them that the model adopted by B R Ambedkar for the Constitution was separation of powers between the legislature, executive and judiciary.
“If the judgements do not happen the way they want them to, then they will go to any extent motivated by malice and demean the institution of judiciary,” she said.
The fate of the impeachment motion rests with Rajya Sabha chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu, who is likely to seek legal opinion before accepting or rejecting it.
Indians can see the truth, says Rahul
Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday said “there is hope” on the judge B H Loya case as millions of “Indians can see the truth”, a day after the judge’s family said “there is no hope left”. “’There is no hope left, everything is managed’, says Judge Loya’s family. I want to tell them, there is hope. There is hope because millions of Indians can see the truth. India will not allow Judge Loya to be forgotten,” Gandhi said in a tweet attaching a news report quoting his family members. Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Gandhi said truth will finally catch up with Amit Shah. “Indians are deeply intelligent. Most Indians, including those in the BJP, instinctively understand the truth about Shah. The truth has its own way of catching up with people like him,” tweeted Gandhi.
