MP Deputy CM Devda should get his head examined. Army follows government orders. It doesn’t bow down to any politician. BJP’s silence on online abuse of FS Misri, reluctance to sack minister Vijay Shah for communally slurring Colonel Qureshi and police’s sham FIR are unfortunate. BJP inaction incentivises this criminality.
If the Centre wants to shoot straight, it is free to amend the Constitution
President’s questions to SC on role of governors keep the fire burning in the confrontation between the executive and judiciary. When it comes to interpreting Constitution, the SC is supreme. Instead of taking the Presidential Reference route, the Centre is free to amend Constitution, if it wants to shoot straight.
India doesn’t need to create a Trump Response Ministry. MEA is onto his playbook
From Tim Cook to Kashmir mediation, India can’t be reacting to every maximalist utterance by Donald Trump. We don’t need to create a Trump Response Ministry. The MEA is handling it well–in a calm, non-kneejerk way. Everybody is onto the Trump playbook: nudging countries into a trade deal he wants.
The SC cannot “interpret the Constitution” to pose restrictions on the President of India. The CJI has neither the authority nor the Constitutional imprimatur to pass diktats on the functioning of the President.
The Supreme Court must course correct. Otherwise, the Legislature and the Executive would be forced to clip it’s wings.
The words need not trigger a panic attack, true, but where they are coming from needs to be meticulously analysed. Do they reflect an underlying stress in the official relationship.
Isn’t all executive action subject to judicial review. And isn’t honourable President bound by the advice tendered by the Cabinet, effectively the political executive. Does the Constitution carve out privileged spaces for holders of high constitutional office, beyond immunity from prosecution.