Menaka Guruswamy flags ‘last-minute’ rollout of women’s quota law after govt’s Lok Sabha setback
The TMC leader alleged that the law was pushed through at the eleventh hour to counter an impending legislative defeat.
The TMC leader alleged that the law was pushed through at the eleventh hour to counter an impending legislative defeat.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi agreed to hear the petitions on Tuesday — March 10 — along with the main West Bengal SIR matter, after Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy mentioned the issue and urged the Bench to take up the petitions together with the main matter listed for hearing tomorrow (on Tuesday).
In a social media post, the West Bengal unit of the BJP — the TMC’s principal political rival in the state — questioned the party’s decision to nominate individuals who, it claimed, were not associated with the organisation during its years in opposition.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday witnessed a sharp exchange between the West Bengal government and the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), with the State alleging that the anti-money laundering agency was being “weaponised” against political opponents, and the ED countering that it was, in fact, being “terrorised”.
