'National Judicial Appointment Commission' #NJAC

On many occasions I have strongly differed with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. However, I am with him on this, when he says that the ‘Indian democracy can’t be tyranny of the unelected’. He has stated this while reacting to the recent strike down of NJAC Act by the five judge bench of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India.

The Strength of any democracy lies with its executive, legislature and it's judiciary. I strongly feel that the independence of the Judiciary must be kept at top priority. However, any one with the slightest of knowledge about the subject will agree with me that the collegium system of appointing judges is erroneous and has not worked well ever since it was put to play some 22 years back. Off late the pristine image of the Judiciary has taken a dent with the increased cases of corruption against its very own at all levels. To restore the credence deficit, in my personal opinion- It would have been ideal if the five judge bench on #NJAC could have marked their reservations about the NJAC act & sent it back for amendment/ improvisation rather than completely striking it down. We must never forget whatever be, the NJAC act was passed as a law with the collective decision of the law makers of the nation.

Having difference of opinion or to dissent with logic is healthy but any sort of ego driven war between the three constitutional pillars of democracy be it the executive, legislature or judiciary is extremely alarming for the safe future of that democracy.

#NJAC needs an upgrade rather than a delete.

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