Union minister Vijay Goel said opposition parties' notice for impeachment of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra is nothing but an attempt to garner publicity and derive political mileage.
Goel, who was here to review the progress of Lucknow Metro Rail Project and national highway projects, accused the Congress party of using impeachment as a political tool.
"In order to garner publicity and derive political mileage, some issues are being created and an atmosphere is being created against the constitutional bodies," the minister of state for parliamentary affairs said.
"When Congress leaders were losing elections, they started blaming the Election Commission. But when they won the elections, they didn't refer to the EVMs. The same trend is being seen in the case of courts. If the judgement is not in their favour, they start criticising the judiciary," he said.
His comments came hours after the opposition parties led by the Congress met Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu in Delhi and handed over a notice for the impeachment of the CJI with signatures of 64 members of the Upper House of Parliament.
The notice was moved a day after the Supreme Court rejected a bunch of petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of Judge B H Loya.
The MPs who signed the notice belong to the Congress, the NCP, the CPI-M and CPI, the SP, the BSP and the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
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