NEW DELHI: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday said exercise of executive authority by either judiciary or legislature was not in consonance with democracy and constitutional prescriptions.
He also said executive governance by the judiciary was “jurisprudentially and jurisdictionally beyond constitutional sanctification”.
Dhankhar appealed to intelligentsia and academia to catalyse a national discourse to ensure deference to constitutional essence by the three wings – executive, legislature and judiciary.
“Undoubtedly, executive governance is exclusive to the executive, as are legislation to legislatures and verdicts to courts. Exercise of executive authority by either judiciary or legislature is not in consonance with democracy and constitutional prescriptions,” Dhankhar said.
He was speaking at a felicitation ceremony for veteran Congress member and former Jammu and Kashmir governor Karan Singh on the latter’s completion of 75 years in public life.