National Conference leader and Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi has said that he would submit a notice seeking an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav over the latter’s recent remarks against Muslims at a VHP event.
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court sparked a row when he said the country would function according to the wishes of the majority in India.
Mehdi said on December 10 that he has support from the Congress, Samajwadi Party, DMK, and Trinamool Congress members in the opposition camp for the impeachment motion.
National Conference leader and Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi has said that he would submit a notice seeking an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav over the latter’s recent remarks against Muslims at a VHP event.
Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court sparked a row when he said last week the country would function according to the wishes of the majority in India.
Mehdi said on December 10 that he has support from the Congress, the Samajwadi Party, the DMK, and the Trinamool Congress members in the opposition camp for the impeachment motion.
“I am moving impeachment motion in the Parliament in accordance with Art 124(4) of the constitution for the removal of this Justice namely Shekhar K Yadav, a sitting Judge in Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, on the charges mentioned in the notice,” Mehdi said in a post on X.
Justice Yadav delivered a lecture on the Constitutional Necessity of Uniform Civil CodeVishva Hindu ParishadAsaduddin Owaisi sahab, Shri Rajkumar Roat Hon’ble MP from Rajasthan, Shri Sudhama Prasad ji Hon’ble MP from Bihar, Jinab Mohibbullah Sahab Hon’ble MP from U.P and Jinab Ziau Rahman sahab, Hon’ble MP from U.P signed it and I thank them for their support and signatures,” Ruhullah Mehdi added.
Owaisi had called out the HC judge’s remarks saying that the Constitution of India is not a majoritarian but a democratic one. “In a democracy, the minority’s rights are protected. As Ambedkar put it ‘…as a King has no Divine Right to rule, so also a majority has no Divine Right to rule’,” the Hyderabad MP said.