Chief Justice of India NV Ramana has expressed his disappointment over the rapidly deteriorating standards of the country’s parliamentary debates and the laws enacted by the legislature.
CJI Ramana said that the parliament adequately debated the law before its enactment, making it easier for the judiciary to interpret it.
“Earlier different, different laws used to be discussed and elaborated in the parliament. So the burden of the courts while interpreting or implementing the law is less. So the legislative part was clear with respect to what they want to tell us. Why they are making such a legislation. Now it is sorry state of affairs, now we see legislation with sorry state of affairs. Now we see legislations with lot of gaps, and lot of ambiguity in making laws,” the Bar and Bench website quoted CJI Ramana as saying.
The CJI added, “There is no clarity in laws. We don’t know for what purpose are the laws being made which is creating a lot of litigation, inconvenience and loss to the government and inconvenience to the public.”
Speaking at the Independence Day function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association, the CJI said that one of the reasons for the sorry state of affairs in the parliament was that good lawyers were not coming to public life.
The Chief Justice of India, according to the Livelaw website, said, “I still remember the debate which took place during the introduction of the Industrial Disputes Act, wherein a member from Tamil Nadu, Mr. Ramamoorthy, a CPM leader, had discussed it elaborately, its consequences, and how it affected the working class.
The Centre’s Narendra Modi government has come under considerable criticism for using its majority in the parliament to rush through the laws that it wished to enact. Hundreds of thousands of farmers have been protesting for months against the enactment of the controversial farm laws that they say were passed only to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s businessman friends.
The opposition leaders have recently been staging protests against the force used by the Modi government to inside the parliament before it passed a host of laws without any debates or discussions.