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Friday,
November 2, 2001, Chandigarh, India  
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Bharucha sworn in Chief
Justice New Delhi, November 1 President K.R. Narayanan administered the oath of office to him at a simple ceremony at Ashoka Hall in Rashtrapati Bhavan today. The oath was administered in terms of Clause (6) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India read with Form IV in the Third Schedule. Mr Justice Bharucha succeeds Justice A.S. Anand who retired on superannuation yesterday. Justice Anand served as the Chief Justice for a little more than three years. He had assumed charge in October 1998. Mr Justice Bharucha has delivered some landmark judgements, including the recently quashing of the appointment of the AIADMK supremo, Ms Jayalalitha, as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He also headed the Constitutional Bench which held that the appointment of judges would be made on recommendations of the Chief Justice of India based on consultations with four seniormost judges of the Supreme Court. The Vice-President, Mr Krishan Kant, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, the Law Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley, and other Union Cabinet Ministers were present during the swearing-in ceremony. Born on May 6, 1937, Mr Justice Bharucha was enrolled as an advocate of the Bombay High Court on July 28, 1960. He was appointed as an Additional Judge in the Bombay High Court on September 19,1977, and as permanent judge on April 3, 1978. He was appointed as the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court on November 1, 1991 and appointed judge of the Supreme Court on July 1, 1992. He will retire on May 6, 2002. |
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BJP to evolve mantra for elections New Delhi, November 1 The exercise at the meeting is expected to evolve ways to exploit the issues of Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO), Ayodhya and Afghanistan-related developments for the party’s electoral advantage. In the words of a senior leader, September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Pentagon in the USA and subsequent aerial attacks on Afghanistan were “God given” boon to us, “we must only know how to use them”. While officially the Assembly elections and other issues will form part of the political resolution which will be adopted at the meeting, the BJP will try to send a clear message to the rank and file of the party that the nation was safe in the leadership of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. A serious effort will also be made to dispel growing popular impression that a battle for control of the party was going on between the camps of the Prime Minister and Home Minister L.K. Advani. On the issue of Ayodhya, ban on SIMI, and approach towards Muslims, the BJP leaders are expected to give conflicting signals with Mr Vajpayee taking his usual ambivalent line and Mr Advani and others adopting a tough posture. “Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds” appears to be the mantra which will be given to the state leaders for evolving their respective responses on the issue of Ayodhya for which the VHP has stepped up its campaign and to which Mr Advani referred so eloquently at the party’s national council meeting here on October 21 which was convened to commemorate the founding of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh 50 years ago. Mr Advani’s words that the party owed its growth and present strength to the concept of cultural nationalism whose nucleus was Ram janmabhoomi mandir at Ayodhya were music to the ears of the party cadres. |
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