Hyderabad, October 11: Lok Satta Party president Jayaprakash Narayan has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to constitute a national judicial commission with powers to appoint and terminate the services of Supreme Court and High Court judges.
Addressing newspersons here Saturday, he said it was increasingly becoming difficult to impeach High Court and apex court judges involved in corruption. “Impeaching judges would require two-thirds majority in the Lower House of Parliament, which is not possible in the current political scenario. There should be a democratic alternative to it,’’ Jayaprakash Narayan said and added that there should be a national judicial commision to look into such matters. He mooted this idea in the context of allegations of corruption against a section of the judiciary and the controversy surrounding the declaration of assets by judges.
The Kukatpally MLA met the prime minister at the Raj Bhavan Friday and suggested constitution of Indian Judicial Service on the lines of Indian Administrative Service for producing better judges.
“Many lawyers, unlike in the past, are not keen on taking up posts as judges. In order to avert this problem, there should be Indian Judicial Service,’’ he said.
Jayaprakash Narayan announced his plans of visiting the flood-hit Mahboobnagar and Kurnool districts on October 11 and 12. He also said that his party was planning to adopt a village in each of the four affected districts (including Krishna and Guntur).
He said that there was a proposal to divert the Hundri river water a few kilometers away from Kurnool so that the town would not be vulnerable to frequent floods. “After doing a thorough study, this should be implemented, as the government should not hesitate about the finance matters for public benefit.
Steering clear of the allegations and counter-allegations being made on the Krishna river floods, he said that political parties should now concentrate on what was to be done instead of doing post-mortem on what had happened already.
The LSP president said that he had written a letter to Chief Minister K Rosaiah suggesting that all liquor outlets in the flood-affected areas should be shut down at least for three months to protect the lives and security of poor families and the licences of the shops which remained closed could be extended for the period they remained closed.
–Agencies–