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In July 2021, Kiren Rijiju was ‘promoted’ to full-time cabinet minister as he took charge of the Law Ministry. He was previously MoS (Independent Charge) of Sports and had earlier served as MoS (Home) in the first term of the Modi government. (Twitter file photo)
Kiren Rijiju had last November said that the collegium system of the Supreme Court was opaque and claimed that most of the judges were of the same opinion. He has also criticized Nehru for his handling of the Kashmir issue as prime minister.
Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday moved a political resolution at the BJP’s national executive in Delhi, indicating his growing stature in the party at a time when he has been very vocal on the issue of reforming the collegium system of the Supreme Court. ,
This also came on a day when it was reported that Rijiju had written a letter to the Chief Justice of India India As a step towards restructuring the collegium system, the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) suggested inclusion of government representatives in the collegium created by the Supreme Court. Rijiju has repeatedly sought immediate reforms in the collegium system, saying the current system is responsible for the huge pendency of cases.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had made a political proposal in the last National Executive of BJP in Hyderabad on 2-3 July 2022. Earlier in November 2021, when the BJP National Executive was held in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made the party’s political resolution. This was just ahead of the all-important state elections in Uttar Pradesh in March 2022, which the BJP later won with a thumping majority. had won
The BJP’s move to bring in the UP CM to make a political proposal cemented the importance of CM Yogi and also kept mum on whether the party was fully supporting him ahead of the UP elections. In 2017 and 2018, senior BJP leader and then Home Minister Rajnath Singh made political proposals in BJP’s national executive meetings.
Rijiju on collegium system and Nehru’s mistakes
In July 2021, Rijiju was ‘elevated’ as a full-time cabinet minister as he took charge of the Ministry of Law and Justice. He was the first Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Play And earlier served as the Minister of State for Home in the first term of the Modi government. As law minister, Rijiju has been critical of the collegium system since last year, insisting that the government has the right to appoint judges.
Last month, Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha that the Center had received representations from various sources on the lack of transparency, fairness and social diversity in the collegium system of appointment of judges in constitutional courts. In November, Rijju said the collegium system was opaque and claimed that most of the judges were of the same opinion. The Supreme Court then took exception to the Law Minister’s comments where he criticized the collegium system.
Rijiju has also been critical of Jawaharlal Nehru’s handling of the Kashmir issue as prime minister. In a piece written exclusively for News18 in October, Rijiju described “Nehru’s 5 blunders on Kashmir” and said the Congress and its ruling dynasty put Jawaharlal Nehru, and subsequent members of the dynasty, first and India later. keep in
“A historical lie has been spread for the past seven decades that Kashmir was also one of the princely states that created problems when it joined India. As the documents now show, it was Nehru who created these problems and not Maharaja Hari Singh,” Rijiju wrote.
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