Lok Sabha MP from West Delhi and senior BJP leader Udit Raj on Saturday said that the higher judiciary is acting like the third House of Parliament and demanded judicial reforms besides reservation in appointment of judges.
“There is no force in the argument that our politicians lack the maturity and required ethics to select judges; the same argument postulates not to have elected government. Are we ready to have other forms of Government; maybe, dictatorship, monarchy or theocracy? We must remember that judges are only as honest as other men, and not more so,” said Raj, who is also chairman of All India Confederation of SC/ST Organizations.
“Nowhere in the world in any democratic country, do judges select judges without government’s involvement,”he added.
The parliamentarian also quoted Thomas Jefferson as nothing in the Constitution has given judges a right to decide for the executive, more than to the executive to decide for them.