Reacting to his remarks, Chidambaram said the Law Minister of India has no authority to draw any "arbitrary Lakshman Rekha" and should read Article 13 of the Constitution.
Rijiju's remarks came after Rahul Gandhi had welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to put on hold the sedition law.
In its significant order on the law that has been under intense public scrutiny, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said there was a need to balance the interest of civil liberties and interests of citizens with that of the state.
The law minister's remarks defending the agency came close on the heels of Chief Justice of India N V Ramana saying that the CBI's credibility has come under deep public scrutiny with the passage of time as its actions and inactions have raised questions in some cases.
UP's Law Minister Brajesh Pathak also dismissed claims about Brahmin voters in UP being angry at the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in the state. He said that the party is the country's only hope to save the cultural heritage of India.
Countering Ansari, Rijiju said some isolated incidents do take place at individual-community level "but Indian culture is always inclusive."Before 2014, communal riots and violence were regular but India is more peaceful now", said Kiren Rijiju.
The statement by Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brajesh Pathak has come days after former minister Harishankar Tiwari’s family members joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) and alleged atrocities against the community in the state’s Gorakhpur, Raebareli and Kanpur.
The law minister on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the Ministry of Home Affairs has no proposal under consideration to scrap Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) dealing with sedition.
During his speech, Rijiju also urged to think about how a law becomes difficult to implement despite getting passed by the Supreme Court, High Court, Assembly or Parliament.
Union Law and Justice Minister Rijiju along with MoS SP Baghel also felicitated the Tele-Law Frontline Functionaries organised by the Dept of Justice.
Speaking on the oft-repeated allegation of the opposition parties on the government's influence on the judiciary, Rijiju contended that such accusations were "unsavoury" and only worked to cast aspersions on its independence.
Kiren Rijiju, while speaking at the launch of 6-week-long 'Pan India Legal Awareness and Outreach Campaign', also stressed on need for strengthening legal education system in India.
The CJI added that Covid-19 has created many problems for many institutions, including the judiciary --thousands of cases have accumulated in different fora, apart from the large vacancies and non-working of courts.
Kiren Rijiju, who is an MP from Arunachal Pradesh, said original folk songs and dances are the essence of every community in the state.
Kiren Rijiju, who took oath as Cabinet minister in the mega reshuffle, has been made the new Union Minister of Law in the Modi government 2.0.
The Supreme Court Friday annulled the Calcutta High Court's June 9 order refusing to take reply-affidavits of West Bengal
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Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in response to a question in Rajya Sabha said that Dalit converting to Islam or Christianity cannot claim reservation benefits and it will also deprive the person the eligibility to contest parliamentary or Assembly election from constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC).
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