Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh) 29 March 2010

To make Judiciary Loyal to Congress Party, courts should be

To ensure the freedom of Judiciary, from the Political Embracements, why joining of any Political Party should not be defined as a Professional Misconduct, under Advocates Act, 1961?

NEW DELHI: Congress-leaning lawyers have raised the pitch for assignments from the government. A Congress convention, which brought together lawyers from Congress legal cells in the states, was set abuzz when populist voices were raised, with one directly asking for party-affiliated lawyers to be accommodated in various panels, and even in the judiciary.

Union law minister Veerappa Moily urged the AICC’s legal department headed by Abhishek Singhvi to create a national database of lawyers affiliated with Congress. ‘‘... we can form domain expertise using their experience; we can train them in different fields and ultimately bond them into mainstream of judiciary,’’ he said.

The call, with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the dais, led to murmurs in the gathering as it was interpreted that there will be a preference for lawyers affiliated with the Congress in the selection for judiciary.

The organizing body headed by Abhishek Singhvi demanded that an Alternative Disputes Redressal system be formed and named after Rajiv Gandhi. Government sources said there is an International Centre for ADR lying dysfunctional and the Prime Minister is unhappy about it. Sources said it could be renamed and made active.

DPCC chief J P Aggarwal got a thunderous applause when he said Congress needed to bring its lawyers on official panels and appointments. Aggarwal, speaking at a working session on ‘‘Human rights, common man and contemporary exigencies’’ chaired by home minister P Chidambaram, said it was found that lawyers who were with the Congress were ignored at the time of selection for various panels. ‘‘Why will they carry your flag?’’ he asked, making a forceful plea.

At the end of the day, Singhvi assured the meeting that the law minister
agreed with the demand made by Aggarwal and steps would be taken in this direction in future.

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N.K.Assumi (Advocate) 29 March 2010

Is Congress Looking back to emergency days to look ahead for India in 21st century?

Sanjeev Panda (Advocate) 31 March 2010

The lawyers can have their political leanings but it should not be misused & abused The attempt made by any political party to accommodate party-affiliated lawyers in various panels is though immoral can be tolerated to some extent but to accomodate the party affiliated lawyers in the judiciary is highly immoral & corrupt practice and should be condemned in strongest possible words. The judiciary should be independent, unbiased and its integrity should not be compromised.

Arup (UNEMPLOYED) 04 May 2010

i feel freedom and misuse of freedom are two seperate things.

freedom is good but misuse of that freedom is one of the worst thinghs.

not only the lawyers, every govt employee, should get freedom to join a political party and express their views, but the stand that - 'as i am a person of that political party, i shall see the interest of that political party' - is misuse of freedom.

all concerned should catious on the matter.

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Anyone of the Advocats kindly place the text here in this forum the detailed procedure of selection of judges,, Please.

It will help us, the common man whosoever is alert and required knowledge, to keep eyes on the selection of judges. Nowadays all the records held by any public authority as the RTI Act 2005 come in existance. We will run an awareness drive so that people will have the documents of such selection.

The common mam should be aware and should have attempting attitude and initiative in redressal of the system till than there were ever the place for such misuse of powers.