SHILLONG, Sep 1: The Meghalaya BJP on Tuesday backed the demand that a local lawyer be considered for Advocate General, saying the State has experienced practitioners who should be used before the government looks outside.
The High Court exchange — in which Kumar suggested bar bodies had failed to protect women lawyers in a case involving the public parading of an advocate — may only have been the trigger.
He urged the government to hear the lawyers with an open mind and examine allegations that were backed by evidence.
The authorities, he added, should not treat the dispute as a closed legal question without first hearing those raising the grievances.
Meghalaya, he repeated, should draw on its own legal talent for important constitutional posts wherever it can.
SHILLONG, Sep 1: The Meghalaya BJP on Tuesday backed the demand that a local lawyer be considered for Advocate General, saying the State has experienced practitioners who should be used before the government looks outside.
Chief Spokesperson Mariahom Kharkrang told reporters there was little justification for an outsider when qualified lawyers were available in Meghalaya, unless the required expertise was missing here.
Kharkrang said the government should first have called the agitating lawyers for a detailed discussion instead of letting the dispute harden into a prolonged confrontation.
The controversy, he said, had deeper roots than a single courtroom remark. The High Court exchange — in which Kumar suggested bar bodies had failed to protect women lawyers in a case involving the public parading of an advocate — may only have been the trigger.
He urged the government to hear the lawyers with an open mind and examine allegations that were backed by evidence. A continuing boycott, he cautioned, would hurt litigants most.
“Ultimately, who suffers? It is the litigants who will be suffering,” he said.
The authorities, he added, should not treat the dispute as a closed legal question without first hearing those raising the grievances. Consultation should have been the first response. Meghalaya, he repeated, should draw on its own legal talent for important constitutional posts wherever it can.
