Diggy takes a dig at judiciary
In a veiled criticism of the judiciary in the country in the wake of recent Supreme Court observations in which it claimed that the CBI was a “caged parrot”, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Monday said such description was “belittling” India’s premier institutions.
Mr Singh’s dig at the judiciary, however, did not go well with Opposition BJP, which lost no time in condemning the Congress leader’s comments and advised him to “learn and understand” why there were a “series of scams” in the UPA government rather than “blaming the judiciary”.
“By calling the CBI a parrot in cage, then a Central Administrative Bench in Bangalore calling the IB a chicken... Now I have a question to the people in general. Are we not belittling our institutions? That’s it.” Mr Singh said in one of his Twitter post.
Later talking to reporters, Mr Singh said, “I want you to respond. I will request you to try and get access to all those who are calling our institutions chicken or parrot. You should take reaction from them also.”
Later the Congress leader, however, said the Supreme Court has to be respected and that he had the greatest regard for judiciary. “And in my political career, I have never sort of belittled the judiciary. But then my only request to the judiciary is that the off-the-cuff observations unfortunately create headlines and at the same time the person against whom the remarks are made doesn’t have the opportunity to appeal against these observations,” Mr Singh said.
Mr Singh’s remarks came against the backdrop of the recent stinging criticism of the CBI by the SC, which said, the investigating agency was a “caged parrot in its master’s voice”.
Losing no time in launching an attack, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged: “If the morale of the CBI has been downgraded, it is only because of the rank abuse of the CBI by the government. The CBI was deliberately not allowed to take up fair investigation. Otherwise the minister of his government would not have sought to weaken the import of the CBI’s entire investigations in Coalgate. Why it was done because the Prime Minister was involved in the Coalgate scam?”
The Congress officially steered clear of the remark, saying the SC observations should be taken seriously. “Digvijay Singh is a senior leader... if he has said something he must have said it with due deliberation,” AICC spokesperson Meem Afzal told reporters.
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