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Sidharth Bhatia
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The Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar went “much beyond his constitutional role as the Presiding Officer of the Rajya Sabha” when he spoke against the Supreme Court. “His language was intemperate," said Supreme Court senior advocate Sanjay Hegde in a podcast discussion with Sidharth Bhatia.
“The conjecture is that he is auditioning for a higher role,” Hegde said.
Pointing to the unseemly comments of BJP MP Nishikant Dubey against the Chief Justice of India, and also the social media campaign attacking the CJI, Hegde said it all seemed like a “concentrated attack.”
“Indian democracy is not in a healthy position,” he said, and the situation was more like an “elected autocracy”. There were occasions in the 1970s when the judges were criticised by the executive but “the language was never so crass” as now.
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