Judiciary can't direct President: Dhankhar

IN A SHARP criticism of the judiciary, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday questioned the Supreme Court's recent decision to set a timeline for the President to take decisions on Bills.

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"We cannot have a situation where you direct the President of India, and on what basis?" he said.

"So we have judges who will legislate, who will perform executive functions, who will act as super Parliament, and absolutely have no accountability because the law of the land does not apply to them," Dhankhar said, while addressing the sixth batch of Rajya Sabha interns at the Vice-President's Enclave.