Prakash Karat not aware of impeachment motion

Hyderabad April 20 (IANS) CPI-M leader Prakash Karat on Friday said he was not aware of an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra.

"There is no impeachment motion moved as far as I am aware of. I don t know. I am sorry. I can t comment. Till yesterday we had not moved any impeachment motion " he told reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing 22nd Party Congress when asked to comment to reports that some opposition parties led by the Congress moved a motion to impeach the CJI on five grounds of "misbehaviour".

A total of 64 members of Rajya Sabha belonging to seven parties including the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) signed a petition submitted to Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu who is the chairman of Rajya Sabha on Friday.

To another query the former CPI-M General Secretary said there was a decision that the MPs will sign that motion "but I don t know that they have actually moved it or given it in " he said.

Karat said while his party was a party to the motion it was now a process in parliament. "Once it is submitted by 50 MPs in Rajya Sabha or 100 MPs in Lok Sabha then there is a process. The Vice Chairman will constitute a committee of retired judges. They will go through it on whether this impeachment motion be taken up. This is something in which we don t have any say " he added.

--IANS
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