Minister of nuisance!

This is for quite another time the Excise Minister of Kerala K Babu twists his tongue against the Hight Court of Kerala.

During the first week of last month the Kerala High Court has slammed his statement that the people would decide what they should drink and not the court. Disturbed by this Justice S.Siri Jagan observed that if the people could decide what they should do, why should there be laws like compulsory wearing of helmets by riders of two-wheelers. Sometimes, laws were made to protect the people against themselves. The classic example was the Abkari Act itself. Why should there were licensing of liquor, if the people could decide what they should drink? And that was a direct warning to the Minister.

However, now with his statement on the other day the Minister once again targeted the court saying that the court had clipped out the Abkari policy of the government. With his repeated statements against the court it seems that minister Babu of the UDF is making a M V (Mulaku Vellam) Jayarajan of the LDF. The court may therefore contemplate to put a lock on Babu’s tongue that he should, no longer, make rubbish speak against the honourable courts and the rule of the land. Of course, this minister has become a public nuisance. The habit of politicians, irrespective of their hue, coming out with scathing attacks on courts should be detained  by High Court itself.

K A Solaman