“Sorry State Of Affairs” No Proper Debate In Parliament, Chief Justice NV Ramana

“No clarity of laws. We do not know what the purpose of the law is. It is a loss to the public. This is when lawyers and intellectuals are not in the Houses”

New Delhi: NV Ramana, Chief Justice of India criticised the parliament functioning in strong terms today Calling the current situation “Sorry State Of Affairs” No Proper Debate in both houses Parliament,

NV Ramana was focussing on both disruptions, and debates on the laws. He was comparing it with earlier times when both houses of parliament Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were “full of lawyers”. Chief Justice asked the legal fraternity to also contribute their time towards public service. Chief Justice Ramana was speaking at the Independence Day at the Supreme Court.

Excerts form Chief Justice NV Ramana’s remarks

“(There is) No clarity of laws. We do not know what the purpose of the law is. It is a loss to the public. This is when lawyers and intellectuals are not in the Houses,”

“If we look at our freedom fighters, many of them were also in the legal fraternity. The first members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were filled with lawyers’ community,”

“Unfortunate what you see now in the Houses… Debates back then in the Houses were very constructive. I saw the debates over financial bills and very constructive points were made. Laws were discussed and deliberated. One had a clear picture of the legislative part of the law,”

“I want to say to lawyers – do not confine yourselves to legal service”

“Earlier different, different laws used to be discussed and elaborated in the parliament. So the burden of the courts while interpreting or implementing the law is less. So the legislative part was clear with respect to what they want to tell us. Why they are making such a legislation. Now it is sorry state of affairs, now we see legislation with sorry state of affairs. Now we see legislations with lot of gaps, and lot of ambiguity in making laws”

“But now, it is a SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS. We see legislations with a lot of ambiguities…. and a lot of gaps in laws. There is no clarity regarding the laws. We don’t know for what purpose, a law has been made… this creates a lot of litigation and inconvenience and loss to the Government and public.