Legislature and judiciary have to work in tandem: Dhankhar

Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said the executive, legislature and judiciary are not pitted against each other and that they have to function in tandem with checks and balances.

- Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI:

He made the comments in Rajya Sabha a day after saying "things would have been different" if the mechanism for judicial appointments -- referring to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) -- had not been struck down by the Supreme Court.

The reference to NJAC on Tuesday in the Upper House came amid a row over the discovery of wads of currency notes at the New Delhi home of Justice Yashwant Varma.

Dhankhar had called a meeting of leaders of various political parties to discuss the fallout of the row and the way forward.

"I need to indicate to the House that we yesterday had a very fruitful interaction on the issue that is agitating the minds of the public," he said.

Leaders of various political parties including leader of the House and Union minister Jagat Prakash Nadda and leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge were present at the meeting.