New Delhi:

A day after his shock removing because the Union Regulation Minister, Kiren Rijiju stated the transfer was the imaginative and prescient of the Prime Minister and never a punishment. He additionally refused to touch upon his run-ins with the Supreme Court docket saying that at this time was not the day for politics.

“This shifting will not be a punishment, that is the plan of the federal government. That is the imaginative and prescient of PM Modi,” Mr Rijiju stated after taking cost of the Ministry of Earth.

“Not the day to speak politics,” he stated when requested about his run-ins with the judiciary.

Mr Rijiju stated that questions on his stint on the regulation ministry are now not related.

“Please do not ask query associated to my earlier ministry, as these questions should not related now. I’ll proceed to work responsibly because the PM retains giving me new responsiblities,” he stated.

Mr Rijiju had taken over as Regulation Minister on July 7, 2021, after the exit of Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Arjun Ram Meghwal has been appointed because the regulation minister, only a yr forward of the essential Lok Sabha elections. The federal government and the Supreme Court docket haven’t been on the identical web page concerning judges’ appointments typically resulting in snide remarks from Mr Rijiju and the Chief Justice of India.

The row escalated when Mr Rijiju stated that the collegium system of judges appointing judges to increased courts was “alien” to the Structure. In January, he additionally wrote to Chief Justice Chandrachud for the inclusion of presidency nominees within the collegium system.

Mr Rijiju once more triggered a backlash in March together with his touch upon “retired activist judges attempting to make the judiciary play the function of an opposition social gathering”.