Supreme Court intervention in Covid issues wrong, says Congress

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, April 23

The Congress on Friday said the Supreme Court’s intervention in the Covid response matter on April 22 was uncalled for and wrong.

Party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the SC intervention was wrong because it was not suo motu ameliorative, but a reaction to palliative high court orders.

“Judicial decentralisation and not over-centralisation is the need of the hour… SC orders have a demoralising, chilling, paralysing and negative effect on the excellent work being done by non-governmental institutions of governance, including HCs. It may have the unintended effect of legitimising the utter failure of the Centre on all fronts in its anti-Covid actions,” Singhvi said.