Parties who failed to win 2019 Lok Sabha polls supporting Shaheen Bagh protests: Smriti Irani SC nine-judge Bench to frame issues related to discrimination against women in religion
AMETHI /PRATAPGARH (UP): Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani on Thursday claimed that the political parties which failed to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are supporting protests like Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, where “anti-national slogans” are being raised.
She also alleged that the intention of the Congress was to “break the country”.
“There is anger in the entire country that in Shaheen Bagh, AAP and other political parties which had failed to win the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are supporting the talk of dividing the country,” the Union minister said here.
She alleged that “antinational slogans are being raised at Shaheen Bagh”, where protests are going on against the Citizenship Amendment Act since the law was passed in Parliament last month.
“Today, on the death anniversary of Bapu, I will only say that even Mahatma Gandhi is being cursed from the platform of Shaheen Bagh. AAP leader
Manish Sisodia has given his support to the protesters of Shaheen Bagh,” she claimed.
The Union minister said she would ask political leaders has their “standard of politics touched so low” that after the defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, they are not able to accept it and “speaking of dividing the country from these platforms”.
“They are talking about ‘Jinnah wali azadi’. Countrymen are looking at these things,” she added.
To a question on the ongoing ‘Ganga Yatra’ in the state, she said, “It will be my fortune that I will be taking part in it in Rae Bareli and Pratapgarh.”
She, however, evaded questions on the visit of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi to the state earlier this month.
Addressing a gathering in Bhetua block after laying foundation stones of 20 projects worth over Rs 5 crore, Irani claimed said now common people too will have access to solar lights like political leaders.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday said a 9-judge Constitution bench will on February 3 frame issues for deliberation in the matter relating to discrimination against women in various religions and at religious places including Kerala’s Sabarimala Temple.
It expressed displeasure at the outset over lawyers not being able to arrive at a consensus on legal issues to be adjudicated upon by the nine-judge bench.
The Constitution bench will consider issues related to entry of Muslim women into mosques, female genital mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community and barring of Parsi women, married to non-parsi men, from the holy fire place at Agiary.
A 3-judge bench, headed by
Chief Justice S A Bobde, further said the 9-judge bench will go through the issues framed by some arguing lawyers and would try to crystalise the common legal questions to be adjudicated upon by it. It will also fix the hearing schedule.
The bench, also comprising Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant, said: “We are little disappointed as you could not arrive at a consensus. Now a ninejudge bench will go through the questions submitted by some of you (advocates) and try to crystallize the issues on February 3 and would decide on schedule and other modalities.”
The top court’s remark came after senior advocate V Giri, mentioned before the bench that some senior advocates appearing in the matters, including in the Sabarimala case, had framed some legal propositions and the court should look into them.
The court had on January 13 asked four senior lawyers to convene a meeting to decide on the issues to be deliberated by it in the matter.
Senior advocate Indira Jaising said the court should also decide the way the proceedings will go on in the matters as there are a range of issues to be dealt with by the Constitution bench.
The bench said it would not allow two lawyers to argue on the same issue.
“Our object is to settle the larger issues and then the individual cases may be looked into,” the bench said.