Jaitley on CJI impeachment issue: Congress plea was ‘unarguable’

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday accused the Congress of increasingly taking fringe rather than mainstream positions, citing the writ petition in the Supreme Court against Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu’s decision to reject the motion to impeach the Chief Justice of India as the latest example.

“If the motion for impeachment was unsustainable, the writ petition challenging the order of the Rajya Sabha Chairman was unarguable. The rejection of a motion by a Speaker or the Chairman is a part of the legislative process. It was a well-reasoned order. The rulings of the Chair, on whether to admit a motion or otherwise, are not subject to judicial review,” Mr. Jaitley wrote in a Facebook post.

“The judgment in the unfortunate death of Judge Loya has already exposed the false hallucination of the Congress where it concocted the unnatural death theory. It now wanted a continuing sword to hang on the Chief Justice and hence on the apex court,” the Union Minister added.

Mr. Jaitley said that the once-dominant party has been reduced to a dynastic party, with people not accepting its present leadership.