By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 14 Dec 2014: Reacting strongly over the statement of the Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik that Ram Temple should be built at the disputed site in Ayodhya, former chief justice of Delhi High Court Justice Rajindar Sachar has demanded Naik’s removal from the Raj Bhawan while terming his call as “a crude partisan political statement.”
“I am shocked at the constitutional impropriety of Uttar Pradesh Governor Shri Ram Naik statement publically calling for the early construction of Ram Temple. His describing it as a desire by everyone is a crude partisan political statement,” said Justice Sachar, former president of People’s Union For Civil Liberties and termed his call as an insult to minority.
“Surely he (Ram Naik) knows that this disruptive action of RSS has already done immense damage to the secular face of India. It is a gratuitous insult not only to the biggest Minority in the country but to overwhelming population of the country who are against creating a religious divide. It is still more shocking to people like us that it should have been spoken at Avadh University named after Dr. Lohia the socialist leader, who throughout fought for communal harmony.”
Justice Rajindar Sachar
Justice Sachar, under whose leadership Sachar Committee Report – India’s first official report on socio-economic status of Muslims, was prepared in 2006 – further said: “The Governor is expected to have an even handed approach to all the citizens of the State. But when Governor Naik makes a statement which will inevitably cause grave alarm to 18% Minority Population of U.P., I have no doubt that at the minimum it is a fit case where the least that Central Government is expected to do is to transfer him to another state though frankly it is a fit case for removal of the Governor.”
