By TCN Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: A week after former Chief Justice of India A. M. Ahmadi accepted that the Supreme Court could have prevented the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily has come up with a frank acceptance of inability on the part of Court or the Constitution to safeguard minority rights.
Moily said that at times Courts or the Constitution may become helpless to go to the “rescue of the minority when there is a tyranny of the majority.”
According to a report in Indian Express, Moily said this while addressing a gathering at a panel discussion on Indian Constitution and the US Bill of Rights.
Dwelling more on his idea about safeguarding minority rights in India and a comparison with the US, Mr. Moily said that US President Eisenhower had sent federal police to take action and put an African-American student back on the bus, when that student was reportedly thrown out.
But if an Indian Prime Minister or the President does the same kind of thing in case of any discrimination, then “a stricture may come from the Supreme Court,” he further added.