As P Chidambaram on Thursday questioned Kiren Rijiju’s Lakshman Rekha remarks after the Supreme Court placed on maintain the applying of sedition regulation, the Union regulation minister reminded the senior Congress chief of the choices taken by the Nehru and the Indira governments on freedom of speech and sedition.
As the Supreme Court placed on maintain the applying of sedition regulation, Rijiju had on Wednesday invoked “Lakshman Rekha” guiding completely different establishments, together with the Executive and the Judiciary, and mentioned nobody ought to cross their “boundary”.
Reacting to his remarks, Chidambaram mentioned the Law Minister of India has no authority to attract any “arbitrary Lakshman Rekha” and may learn Article 13 of the Constitution.
“The Legislature cannot make a law, nor can a law be allowed to remain on the statute book, that violates the Fundamental Rights. The sedition law, in the view of many legal scholars, violates Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution,” the previous Union minister mentioned on Twitter.
“All the King’s horses and all the King’s men cannot save that law,” Chidambaram mentioned in a swipe on the Centre.
Rijiju additionally took to Twitter to hit again on the former Union minister.
“That’s why Nehru Ji brought in the First Amendment and Smt Indira Gandhi made Section 124A a cognisable offence for the first time in India’s history?,” he questioned.
Rijiju claimed that throughout the Anna motion and the opposite anti-corruption actions residents had been subjected to harassment, intimidation and arrests.
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