Addressing the VIT-AP College fifth Convocation, Justice Ramana, with out taking the earlier YSRCP regime's identify, stated even members of the judiciary who upheld the constitutional rules confronted strain and persecution. Households of judges who had no position turned collateral to political organisations.
“All of you current, most of you current right here, know the way my household was focused and felony circumstances had been filed in opposition to them. All this was performed solely to coerce me, and I used to be not alone. Throughout that troublesome section, all those that empathised with the reason for the farmers confronted intimidation and coercion,” he stated on Saturday.
Justice Ramana was referring to the farmers' agitation in opposition to then YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's authorities for scrapping Amaravati as the only real capital of Andhra Pradesh and espousing “three capitals” system with Visakhapatnam being the Administrative capital, Amaravati-Legislative capital and Kurnool- Judicial capital.
In such instances, when many political leaders hesitated to take a stance or stay silent, it was the jurists, legal professionals, and the courts of this nation who stood by their constitutional promise, he additional stated.
Whereas governments could change, the courts and rule of regulation stay the anchor of stability. And the rule of regulation survives solely when folks repose their public belief, decline to give up their integrity for comfort, he stated.”I salute the spirit of the farmers of Amaravati, who courageously withstood the forces of presidency mechanism. I draw numerous inspiration from the farmers' wrestle. I additionally thank them for reposing their belief on the judicial system and the democratic course of,” the previous CJI stated, recalling his affiliation with Amaravati.
After Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu-led authorities took cost in Andhra Pradesh, the Amaravati capital mission was revived, and the works at the moment are progressing at a sooner tempo.
