New Delhi: After ridiculing country's apex bodies, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has now defended his comments on the Supreme Court saying reforms are needed to ensure better functioning of judiciary in India. Earlier, Khurshid had slammed the SC judges saying they should get their act together instead of directing Parliamentarians to do so.
"Judges sit and they say this is not to happen and of course go to the extent of threatening contempt proceedings against officials. Two judges can say anything about Parliamentarians that they will be allowed to contest or not, what kind of affidavit they have to file, what they can do and so on," Khurshid had said.
He also mocked the Election Commission saying it only ensure that a party lose elections and not win them. They are only three and they can decide which word you can use during election campaign. The broad philosophical approach is that you should do and say nothing that wins you an election, you should try your best to lose election," Khurshid said while speaking at an event in London, he said during a speech on the 'Challenges of Democracy in India' at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
Sensing an opportunity, BJP was quick to hit out at the Congress. Party leader Prakas Javedekar. has said that the comments had been made out of desperation. "Khurshid's diatribe against Election Commission is nothing but their (Congress's) desperation. His other senior colleagues are opting out of the election race," said Prakash Javadekar.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said that the party considered the Model Code of Conduct as well as the orders of Election Commission to be the law and followed the same religiously.
Khurshid reportedly questioned the role of Supreme Court and Election Commission while mocking them in his comments during a speech on the 'Challenges of Democracy in India' at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.
(With additional information from PTI)
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