Sandeep Heble
The Vice President is wrong in this. The Supreme Court of India is spot on when it sets a deadline to the President to decide on the bills sent by the Governor. In any liberal, progressive, and truly democratic setup, there has to be a time limit for everything. Delays kill democracy. When matters are kept pending for months, and years, for no real reason at all, it shatters the very fabric of truth and justice. Not only does it directly affect lives, livelihood, progress and policies, but it even destroys them.
But honestly, it’s high time deadlines are fixed not just for the President or Governors, or Politicians, but for the Judicial courts as well. And all other Public authorities as well, who need to decide on matters in a time bound manner.
Why is there no urgency when it comes to bail matters, UAPA cases, frauds and corruption cases, or pending trials that go on for years altogether, or the defections in the political system? Why delays in settling so many cases where lives and justice is getting destroyed with each passing day? Courts also need to fix their own house in order. As they say, a slow system is an unjust system and justice delayed is justice denied.
Supreme Court must expand the scope of its present observations. India needs to move faster—in governance, in justice, in just about everything. No more “Tariq pe Tariq.” That era has to end if India has to change for the good.
