Lok Sabha elections: Upendra Kushwaha calls collegium system ‘undemocratic’ in presence of Amit Shah

The Bharatiya Janata Janata Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance will once again try to remove the “undemocratic” collegium system of appointing judges in the higher judiciary when it comes back to power, former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha said on Sunday, PTI reported.

“The collegium system has many flaws,” claimed Kushwaha, who heads the Rashtriya Lok Morcha. “It is undemocratic. It has shut the doors of judgeship in the higher judiciary on Dalits, OBCs [Other Backward Classes] and even the poor among the upper castes.”

Under the collegium system, the five most senior judges of the Supreme Court, including the chief justice, decide on the appointments and transfers of judges to the top court and the High Courts.