{"id":306085,"date":"2018-11-25T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306085"},"modified":"2018-11-25T15:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:54:47","slug":"congress-threatens-sc-judges-with-impeachment-to-delay-ayodhya-case-hearing-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-threatens-sc-judges-with-impeachment-to-delay-ayodhya-case-hearing-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress threatens SC judges with impeachment to delay Ayodhya case hearing: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306087 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/modi-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/modi.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked Congress party, that it had threatened Supreme Court judges with impeachment when they tried to hear the Ayodhya dispute cases earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi blamed Congress party for the delay in the construction of Ram mandir at the disputed site in Ayodhya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a rally at Rajasthan\u2019s Alwar district, Modi raised the Ayodhya issue and accused the Congress of disrespecting the Parliament of India by politicising the case. He further said, \u201cCongress has no faith in democracy and judiciary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi accused the Congress of interfering in the Supreme Court\u2019s proceedings on the Ram Temple-Babri Masjid case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongress creates an atmosphere of fear for the judiciary. They tell the Supreme Court to delay the Ayodhya hearing due to 2019 elections. They do everything possible to impeach the Chief Justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi tweeted, \u201cnew tricks of the Congress: Send lawyers to the Rajya Sabha. Obstruct key legislation. Armtwist the courts. And, if a Judge does not give verdicts they like then bully them with impeachment threats. Congress\u2019 black deeds will not succeed till I am here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court had earlier refused to give an early hearing to the case and fixed January 2019 as the time when the court is expected to decide when it wants to hear the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A SC bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had said that the appropriate bench will decide the future course of hearing in January 2019 in pleas challenging the Allahabad High Court\u2019s 2010 verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Shiv Sena held parallel programmes\u00a0in Ayodhya on Sunday, demanding that the government should fast-track the construction of the Ram temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray asserted that Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya, irrespective of whether the BJP government returns to power next year.\u00a0While speaking to the media, Thackeray\u00a0said that he is in Ayodhya to express the sentiments of Indians and Hindus across the world, who are waiting for a Ram Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">VHP held a &#8220;dharma sansad&#8221; to discuss the way forward for the construction of the Ram temple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked Congress party, that it had threatened Supreme Court judges with impeachment when they tried to hear the Ayodhya dispute cases earlier this year. Modi blamed Congress party for the delay in the construction of Ram mandir at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Addressing a rally at Rajasthan\u2019s Alwar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[9876,9864,513,134,2287],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306088,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306085\/revisions\/306088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}