LONDON: Calling Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud “one of the most enlightened souls” to become the CJI, who “brings on the table huge experience, commitment, passion, and is enormously talented”, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar has hailed the “reach of the Indian judiciary” and said that it has no parallel.
Addressing the Indian diaspora here, he said, “Look at the orders — it takes him (CJI) no time to grant relief to an ordinary man. Where do you have a judiciary as involved as in India?”
Dhankhar said there will always be “issues in dynamics of governance”, but “when we examine our judiciary, it is spinally strong.”
In the UK to attend the Coronation of King Charles III, Dhankhar addressed the Indian community and focused on the growth strides being made by India and its success story as a “democracy functioning at an unmatched level”.
Praising the diaspora for making the country proud, the Vice-President said: “India is proud of its diaspora. They remain fully committed to the karam bhumi, and also to their janam bhumi. Everyone of you has to be a 24×7 ambassador of Bharat… I would therefore appeal to all of you, in whatever manner you can contribute to the growth of the nation, for the rise in its reputation; and to ensure that untenable, ill-premised, unfounded, baseless narratives do not take strides in the public domain.”
He spoke of the ‘Amrit Kaal’ achievements under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking 75 years of Independence, and highlighted the Government’s target to become the third-largest economy by the turn of the decade.
