Opposition parties to meet on Friday on CJI impeachment

IANS  |  New Delhi 

and some other opposition parties are likely to meet here on Friday with proposed motion against of expected to come up for discussion, sources said.

The opposition parties expected to attend the meeting include the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party, the Rashtriya Janta Dal, the Communist Party of and the Nationalist Party.

leaders have said that the issues rasied by four judges have not been addressed yet by the CJI.

They have said the party was concerned about the independence of judiciary and people must protect the institution from "gross interferences by the government."

During the budget session that concluded earlier this month, the had initiated a move collecting more than 50 signatures of the members in a bid to table the motion, but there were reservations from parties like the

The kept the move on hold, saying it wanted to get as much support as possible from other parties.

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First Published: Thu, April 19 2018. 22:54 IST