Show seriousness, are we useless ? : SC judges berate Centre during drought hearing
"Show some seriousness...are we useless?" the judges said as the Centre requested more time saying the Additional Solicitor General was busy in another courtroom.
"Is this like cattle or something? Go here, go there. This is not your priority? Two judges are sitting here. You expect us to do nothing and just keep looking at the watch waiting for time to pass?" the judges said in what came as a pounding for the Centre.
However, after this Additional Solicitor General Pinki Anand came rushing in and said she was ready to argue.
The court is hearing a petition by former Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav's organization Swaraj Abhiyaan, which asks for relief for farmers at a time 10 states have declared drought.
On Wednesday, the court had told the government that it can't turn a blind eye to the crisis in nearly a dozen states and asked for a report on its performance in drought relief.
The petition alleges that the Centre has "squeezed the jobs guarantee scheme MNREGA virtually dry" by starving states of funds, with a huge backlog of wage payments from last year yet to be cleared.
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