CJI Impeachment Row : Mamata Banerjee Does Not Support The Congress Stand

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Though she is spearheading possible the anti- BJP front eyeing the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee appears not to be on the same page  with the Congress regarding  the impeachment motion against the CJI Dipak Misra.  Mamata  has said that the Congress was wrong in giving an impeachment notice against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. The Trinamool Congress did not support the impeachment move.

“The Congress was wrong to give impeachment notice against the CJI. The Congress wanted us to support it. But we did not,” she told News18 Bangla channel.

“I told Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi not to go for impeachment,” Banerjee said, adding that her party did not want to interfere in the judiciary.

Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu had rejected the notice by seven Opposition parties, led by the Congress, to impeach the Chief Justice of India on five grounds of “misbehaviour”, saying the allegations were neither “tenable nor admissible”.

Naidu’s order, which came within two days of the notice being submitted to him, was slammed as “hasty, illegal and ill-informed” by the Congress.