Thursday, September 1, 2011

Unnecessary and un-called for


The politics over matter of legal importance is dangerous to democracy, and in the given circumstances, it would be very difficult to maintain freedom of four independent pillars - Legislature, Judiciary, Executive and Press- of parliamenatary system of governance. To show sympathy with the people of their state, region and community by setting wrong tradition, all political entities in order to score political point over each other have passed a resolution in Tamil Nadu Assembly unananimously on the issue of amnesty for the three killers of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The question here arises that when the court of law has delivered the judgement of hanging the killers, why all political classes in unison seek clemency for them. The court has found them guilty and appropriately punished them. There is nothing wrong with it when the law is already in place.No political class of a particular state or region should be allowed to build pressure on the highest authority in the under question to overturn the judgement of the court of law where the murderers of Ex-PM are involved. The Tamil Nadu Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution for amnesty of three killers of Late PM Rajiv Gandhi for absolutely political reason. JD(U) has rightly taken a dig at its NDA ally BJP for raising objections over Omar Abdullah’s remarks on the issue of execution of Afzal Guru, asking why it had not raised eyebrows when the matter relating to Rajiv Gandhi’s killers had come up.What Omar Abdullah is saying is correct. What is wrong in saying that there would have been an uproar if resolution had been passed on amnesty to Afzal Guru by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly?Abdullah had tweeted that if J&K assembly had passed a resolution against the death sentence given to Guru as was done by the Tamil Nadu Assembly for the killers of Rajiv Gandhi, the reaction would not have been as muted as it is now. Objecting Omar's tweet would have been relevant if BJP had raised this issue earlier when the Tamil Nadu Assembly had passed the resolution on amnesty to Rajiv Gandhi’s killers. Or when the Shiromani Akali Dal (another NDA ally) was opposing the death sentence to Devinder Singh Bhullar.Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has rightly tweeted ,raising the question that if Jammu and Kashmir Assembly had passed the unanimous resolution for Amnesty of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru, would they have muted response? As Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed the resolution only because the three killers belong to that state and if the same tradition would be followed by other states, there would be no meaning of judicial verdict . In this way our judicial system will have no importance because the judgement pronounced by the court of law would be put to the test of politicians. So, this tradition of making judicial verdict a mockery must be stopped.

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