Judiciary ruining legislature |
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, speaking in the Rajya Sabha in the context of the GST Bill, urged MPs not to hand over budgetary and taxation powers to the judiciary. He also claimed that the judiciary had been encroaching on legislative and executive authority. Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India’s legislature is being destroyed,” Jaitley said during a discussion on The Appropriation (No.2) Bill 2016 and the Finance Bill, 2016. Both Bills were passed by the Rajya Sabha and returned to the Lok Sabha.Responding to the Congress’s demand for a dispute redressal mechanism under which a judge would resolve any dispute between the Centre and states on GST, Jaitley said: I beseech you in the interest of Indian democracy not to go on this misadventure… With the manner in which encroachment of legislative and executive authority by India’s judiciary is taking place, probably financial power and budget making is the last power that you have left. Taxation is the only power which states have.It would be wholly misconceived for any political party to hand over the taxation power to judiciary.
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