Impeaching CJI Dipak Misra: Are the Communists living in fool's paradise?

CPM may fail to remove India's most powerful judge, but succeed in embarrassing the BJP

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has asserted that it will bring an impeachment motion or what constitutional purists call removal proceedings against sitting Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra in the Budget session. A look at the permutations, combinations and intricacies of rules involving removal of judges suggests that the CPM’s shot at springing back to political relevance may not be as easy as its senior leaders have made it sound in public. 

To start proceedings to remove Justice Misra from his office, the Communists would need to give notice for a motion to President Ram Nath Kovind.