Include govt representatives in collegium: Union Law Minister writes to CJI

Union Law minister Kiren Rijiju's wrote a letter to the CJI D Y Chandrachud suggesting inclusion of government representatives in the collegiums for infusion of transparency and public accountability into the selection process of constitutional court judges. The SC is of the opinion that suggestion to include government representatives in the two-tier judge-selection mechanism is a fresh attempt to bring through backdoor shades of National Judicial Appointment Commission Act, which was passed unanimously by the Parliament but quashed as unconstitutional by a five-judge SC bench in October 2015.