Achuthanandan & Pinarayi united in criticising Kerala High Court
Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan and state CPM secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who can hardly see eye to eye, have found a common cause in pillorying the judiciary.
NEW DELHI: Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan and state CPM secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who can hardly see eye to eye, have found a common cause in pillorying the judiciary.
Angry over the Kerala high court���s observation that police in the state have become instruments of political masters, the two leaders said the remarks have risked legal credibility.
This stand of the CPM leaders is not surprising. Although the CPM has been a known votary of judicial intervention and usurpation in states controlled by its rivals, it has been resisting similar attempts in the party run states. The Calcutta high court was the object of its ire when it passed strictures against the West Bengal government for the violence in Nandigram.
At that point, too, they argued that questions over Nandigram belonged to the state legislature where it can be debated. Of course, what was unsaid was that the debate can be regulated and its course altered.
But the stand of the CPM is certain to put cheerleaders of the Left in trouble. This section, which nurture a liberal enthusiasm for judicial law making, will find it difficult to back a stand that is seen to be indefensible in public eye. The Kerala high court���s observations came in the backdrop of the state government���s reluctance to act against day light political murders in Thalasserry.
The political rivals of the CPM, however, are familiar with the Left���s response to similar situations. When courts happened to stand in the CPM government���s way in the past, the CPM state unit leaders personally led a vilification campaign against the judges.
The CPM state unit went to extent of symbolically exiling the chief justice from Kerala over an order in the self-financing educational institutions case. In any case, treating the other side with respect and disagreeing without assigning motives do not come naturally to the CPM.
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Angry over the Kerala high court���s observation that police in the state have become instruments of political masters, the two leaders said the remarks have risked legal credibility.
This stand of the CPM leaders is not surprising. Although the CPM has been a known votary of judicial intervention and usurpation in states controlled by its rivals, it has been resisting similar attempts in the party run states. The Calcutta high court was the object of its ire when it passed strictures against the West Bengal government for the violence in Nandigram.
At that point, too, they argued that questions over Nandigram belonged to the state legislature where it can be debated. Of course, what was unsaid was that the debate can be regulated and its course altered.
But the stand of the CPM is certain to put cheerleaders of the Left in trouble. This section, which nurture a liberal enthusiasm for judicial law making, will find it difficult to back a stand that is seen to be indefensible in public eye. The Kerala high court���s observations came in the backdrop of the state government���s reluctance to act against day light political murders in Thalasserry.
The political rivals of the CPM, however, are familiar with the Left���s response to similar situations. When courts happened to stand in the CPM government���s way in the past, the CPM state unit leaders personally led a vilification campaign against the judges.
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The CPM state unit went to extent of symbolically exiling the chief justice from Kerala over an order in the self-financing educational institutions case. In any case, treating the other side with respect and disagreeing without assigning motives do not come naturally to the CPM.
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