Any breach in the limits set by the Constitution gives fodder to the media to broadcast news with ‘masala’, he said.
“We (government) will not breach our limits and judiciary should also be in the constitutional limits and then news media will not get masala. But if you breach then you give them fodder,” the Law Minister said.
He was speaking at the 16th National Conference of Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad on the topic: ‘New challenges and opportunities in front of the Indian judicial system.’
The Law Minister in his speech responded to the recent allegations by political opponents that the ruling BJP government was trying to control the judiciary.
On the recent executive-collegium tussle, the Law Minister said that though judges are not elected by the people, they should at some point develop the thought process that they are also responsible to the public.
“We are working for the public and those who are working in judiciary must also think that in some way or other that they are also answerable to the public. So judges will (sic) also think that while delivering a judgment they will think what is to be done,” Rijiju said.
Source: Barandbench
