The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a PIL seeking action against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti for resorting to “agitation and street fight” for removal of some police officials.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam posted the hearing to Friday, on the PIL filed by an advocate seeking arrest of Mr. Kejriwal and Mr. Bharti.
The petitioner has alleged that they are agitating in violation of law as they are holding constitutional posts and they cannot agitate on the streets against other constitutional authorities.
The petition was mentioned before the CJI’s bench for an urgent hearing.
Advocate M.L. Sharma, in his petition, has alleged that the Chief Minister is “trying to protect his Minister Bharti from investigation/prosecution” in connection with an FIR filed by four foreign women alleging they were harassed by a group of persons who barged into their house at midnight on January 15-16 and assaulted them.
The FIR has been lodged on the direction of a Delhi court which passed the order on the plea of the four women — two Nigerian and two Ugandan nationals.
Mr. Kejriwal and his ministerial colleagues are sitting on a dharna outside Rail Bhavan since Monday, demanding action against the police officials who refused to raid an alleged drug and prostitution ring in South Delhi.
Read more here — http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sc-to-hear-pil-against-ongoing-kejriwals-dharna/article5601246.ece
January 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm
AAP is the new Google !
Eric Schmidt , Chairman – Google , was in India a few weeks back
In an interview , he said ,
” It is quite possible that the next Google comes out of India ”
May be he was thinking of AAP !
Because AAP is the new Google
Within months of being launched ( Sept 1998 ) , Google left behind the mighty and powerful , established search engines like Yahoo / MSN ( Bing ) / AOL / Alta Vista / Meta Crawler / Excite / Ask Jeeves etc
In a similar fashion , ONE YEAR old AAP will soon leave behind , the mighty and entrenched political parties of India , such as , Congress / BJP / BSP / SP / TMC / CPI (M) / AIDMK / DMK / BJD / RJD etc
Why is that not only ” possible ” but also highly ” probable ” ?
Just look at what is happening on the streets of Delhi since yesterday morning
Arvind Kejriwal – and his cabinet ministers – are sitting on a ” Dharna ” , near Rail Bhavan – and even sleeping on the footpath !
They are raising their voice and challenging the ” ESTABLISHMENT ” of the corrupt / the criminals / the callous / the Congress
For the first time in the history of independent India , the Ministers are not sitting in their air-conditioned Mahels
They are out in the Mohallas , leading the people , ready to be arrested / lathi-charged / what have you !
Without deviating from their peaceful , non-violent means
They are walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi / Martin Luther King / Nelson Mandela / Dalai Lama
They will teach the oppressed people of the World , how to bring about a change – democratically , without resorting to guns
Nearly 72 years ago , on 9th Aug 1942 , Mahatma Gandhi asked British to ” Quit India ” – peacefully
And gave to the people of India , mantra of ” Karenge ya Marenge ” !
There is a strong possibility that the history may repeat today , outside the Rail Bhavan !
People of India are welcoming the rise of the new GOOGLE in their political sky !
* hemen parekh ( 21 Jan 2014 / Mumbai )