Senior Congress leader and lawyer Kapil Sibal expressed his dissatisfaction over Rajasthan High Court ruling in the disqualification case of Sachin Pilot and his 18 other MLAs.
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday said that no action could be taken against Sachin Pilot and his supporting MLAs, providing interim relief to the Pilot camp against disqualification.
“Maybe it is time that lawyers will have to take off their robes as when High Courts are not following Supreme Court judgments and go to the public, while adhering to non-violence”, Sibal said.
Criticising the High Court for interfering in the Speaker’s office, he said that even Governors are not acting as protectors of the Constitution. “We know what happened in Maharashtra as in the wee hours the Governor administered the oath and President rule was revoked. In Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh the same thing happened; MLAs were lured and lodged somewhere else and later the elected government collapsed”, the former Union law and justice minister added.
Sibal, who moved the Supreme Court on behalf of Rajasthan Assembly Speaker C.P. Joshi had argued that the High Court’s decision to hear Pilot and his group’s plea against the disqualification notices goes against the Supreme Court ruling of 1992. Apart from legal issues, Sibal also slammed Rajasthan’s former Deputy CM and advised him not to make “tamasha” of the Congress in public. He said, “I want to ask Sachin, do you want to become Chief Minister? Tell us. Why protest? If you say you are not joining the BJP, then why are you sitting in Haryana? Why didn›t you attend Congress meetings? Do you want to form your own party? Whatever it is, come out and speak. Don›t sit inside a hotel.”