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In a post on social media platform X, Ramesh wrote, “Here is the bold Justice Ujjal Bhuyan speaking yesterday in NALSAR University in Hyderabad where he exposed the CEC lock, stock and barrel. If he has any sense of shame Gyanesh Kumar must quit right away. His ability to execute G2’s illegal orders have now made him a liability for the country.”
ANI “If he has any sense of shame, Gyanesh Kumar must quit right away”: Jairam Ramesh reiterates demand for CEC’s resignation New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Following Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan’s views on what he says is the arbitrary disenfranchisement of voters, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday demanded the immediate resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, alleging that the SC judge had exposed the poll chief “lock, stock and barrel.”
The Congress leader claimed that the CEC has become a “liability for the country” and alleged that he was executing “illegal orders.”
In a post on social media platform X, Ramesh wrote, “Here is the bold Justice Ujjal Bhuyan speaking yesterday in NALSAR University in Hyderabad where he exposed the CEC lock, stock and barrel. If he has any sense of shame Gyanesh Kumar must quit right away. His ability to execute G2’s illegal orders have now made him a liability for the country.”
Ramesh’s sharp reaction comes in the backdrop of Justice Bhuyan’s address on Sunday at the valedictory ceremony of the 19th NALSAR BRS Moot Court Competition in Hyderabad, where the apex court judge said that any procedure that leads to the disenfranchisement of millions of citizens and turning individuals into “second-class citizens” without voting rights is “intrinsically arbitrary”.
“If any process results in disenfranchising millions and millions of Indian citizens, making them second-class citizens in their own country in the sense of being citizens without voting rights, such a process is intrinsically arbitrary. No amount of whataboutery can justify it. It strikes at the very heart of the Constitution,” Justice Bhuyan had stated.
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