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Informist, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024

NEW DELHI – Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh on Thursday dismissed a notice submitted by the opposition parties to bring a resolution for the removal of Vice President and Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar. In his ruling, Harivansh said the notice was "severely flawed, apparently drawn in haste and hurry to mar the reputation of the vice president."

The ruling said Article 67(B) of the Constitution mandates at least 14 days' prior notice for any resolution contemplating the removal of the vice president. Since the notice was given on Dec. 10, the 

resolution can be taken only after Dec. 24 but the current session of the Rajya Sabha will end on Dec. 20, the ruling said. 

Despite knowing that the resolution could not be brought in this session, the opposition parties initiated the process only to set a narrative against the second-highest Constitutional office in the country, Harivansh said. "A look at the notice reveals it couldn't be more casual and cavalier, wanting on every conceivable aspect and severally flawed - absence of addressee, absence of resolution text, incumbent Vice President's name not correctly spelt in the entire petition, documents and videos asserted not made part, premised on links of disjointed media reports without authentication and many more," Harivansh said in his ruling. 

The members of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance submitted a notice to move a resolution for the removal of Dhankhar over his conduct as chairman of the Rajya Sabha. The opposition members accused Dhankhar of conducting Rajya Sabha proceedings in an "extremely partisan manner".

"It has been a very painful decision for the I.N.D.I.A. parties to take, but in the interests of parliamentary democracy they have had to take this step," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had written on social media site X. The notice was signed by 60 opposition members of the Upper House. 

The opposition bloc had moved the notice under Article 67(B) of the Constitution to move a motion for the removal of Dhankhar. The article states that a vice-president may be removed from office by a resolution of the Council of States passed by a majority of all the members of the council and agreed to by the House of the People. It also states that the resolution can only be moved after at least 14 days' notice has been given of the intention to move such a resolution.  End

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Saji George Titus

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