NEW DELHI: The Opposition has the numerical strength neither in the Rajya Sabha nor in the Lok Sabha to get its Friday’s impeachment motion passed against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, but the Congress is banking on the report of the inquiry committee to be constituted by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to vet the charges.
Nobody, not even the ruling BJP MPs, will be able to oppose the motion if the inquiry committee finds even one of the five charges in the notice credible, a top Congress leader said. He also dismissed as “nonsense” the speculation on differences in the Congress, pointing out that everybody fell in line once Congress President Rahul Gandhi cleared the plan. In fact, he said Rahul is following it up by launching a massive “Save Constitution, save democracy” campaign here on Monday.
He said the impeachment plan fructified after discussions on the whole gamut of issues for weeks. If the inquiry committee, comprising a supreme court judge, a High Court chief justice and a jurist, is formed, it will have a plethora of wrong doings of the CJI, such as obvious manipulation of the roster of Benches, antedating of an internal note and the conversations recorded by the CBI relating to Prasad Education Trust. Once the committee upholds the charges, which party, which MP will support the CJI and if the BJP supports him and defeats the motion, people will know the danger to the judiciary under its dispensation, the Congress leader said.
