Authorise law for assignments to Election Commissionand constitutional posts by Advani
In sight of the modern argument across assigning P J Thomas as Chief Vigilance Commissioner (CVC), senior BJP leader L K Advani said a law ought be authorized to de-politicise designations to constitutional posts like Election Commission, CAG and UPSC, amongst others.
“I feel it would be appropriate to decide now that a law is enacted to de-politicise appointments to key constitutional and statutory bodies,” Advani alleged on his web log.
He conveyed his concern across the “misuse” of authorization along the UPA government, comprise it in the event of Thomas’ appointment as the CVC despite a dissent from leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj or the “polemical” glosses made by Law Minister Salman Kurshid which constrained the Election Commission to write to President Pratibha Patil.
“I would specifically commend inclusion of the Election Commission, the controller and Auditor General, the UPSC and the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) in this list. All that demands to be practiced is to include the leaders of Opposition (let these be of both Houses) in the selection committees that perform these functions till now,” Advani said.
The early Deputy chancellor noticed that later Kurshid was indicted by the EC, the authorities made a “tentative move” to curtail the powers of the Election Commission in issues relating to any breach of the example code of behavior merely better sense prevailed and he extracted regret.
“The latest in this sequence of first-time occurrences has been another central minister’s threat to the UP electorate: Either you elect the Congress to power in the state, or be prepared to see President’s rule inflicted on UP!” Advani said, bearing on to the comments of Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal.
He governed the repeated abuse of Article 356 to impose President’s rule out states since independence.
Hitting out at the UPA government, the elder leader said “totally unprecedented events” in the last 65 years since independence have come about in this dispensation.
He asserted that never before had Union Cabinet ministers comprised first removed from authority on agitates of corruption, and later, after being indicted by courts, confined in Tihar jail.
