Samikhsya Bureau
The nomination of former CJI of India, Justice Ranjan Gogoi to the Rajya Sabha has raised heckles in the opposition camp and one cannot stop other people raising eyebrows over its timing.
The Congress party has come out hard on it describing the nomination of Justice Gogoi as an “attack on judiciary” and many such tirades aimed at the NDA, allegedly, caring to reward for loyalty.
Be it any party in power, it is evident that, dissent has no place in the present format of politics if the ultimate goal is a post retirement rehabilitation .
One has to listen to the command of the politics, in whichever away deemed fit, and somehow remain under certain control.
Justice Gogoi should not be isolated as an exception as a retired CJI to have got this coveted position.
It was former CJI of the apex court, Justice Ranganath Mishra who had been nominated to the Upper House although not by the President but by his party leader in Odisha, late J B Patnaik, as a member of parliament of the Congress party in 1998.
Whereas, Justice Mishra had joined the Congress about six years after his retirement from the judiciary. So, he had no tag of the Eminence as in the case of Justice Gogoi.
Whether directly or indirectly, leader worship and ideological obsessions have furloughed anything called principles.
If a chief of the Army can afford to tweak his ways to suit himself to a particular dispensation, there can be arguments that, why not a CJI.
Some do follow the political ideals and some are made to follow, rather unthinkingly, unmindful of the damage such loyalties inflict on the real followers who devote their life-time to that party’s good.
People coming from any such eminent background are quite bound to undergo a phase of political inferiority complex and remain subjugated to an ideology either they endorse it or not.
And such situations may trigger the intellectual sneers within the person which may upset the individual some times.
