OPPN TEARS INTO GOVT, BJP SAYS TUKI AS CM WILL BE IN MINORITY

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court order restoring Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh led to a political slugfest over the second setback to the BJP in after a similar fiasco in Uttarakhand.

While the BJP called the SC order as “extraordinary”, Congress president Sonia Gandhi hoped that the SC order will deter the BJP from “misuse of power”. “Those who had trampled upon constitutional propriety and democratic norms have been defeated today,” Sonia said.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal called it a “tight slap” on its “dictatorial tendencies”. “Hope Modi ji would learn and now stop interfering in democratically elected governments,” he wrote on Twitter. BSP chief Mayawati asked BJP to learn its lesson on constitution at the earliest after the SC order.

Former chief minister Nabam Tuki, whose government was dismissed, said the order has protected democracy and ensured that justice prevails. “It paves the way to protect healthy democracy in the country,” Tuki said.

Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat, who also got relief from the apex court, said in a social media post: “Judiciary has restored faith of people in democracy.” The BJP tried to put up a brave face saying it had nothing to do with the Arunachal fiasco. “The court view is extraordinary. A person (Kalikho Pul) who has proved his majority on the floor of the house has been removed while those (Nabam Tuki) in minority returns as chief minister,” BJP secretary Sidharth Nath Singh said.