New Delhi: In a detailed order, the Vice-President said he had a detailed conversation on all the aspects arising from the notice.
“Based on all this, I have come to the conclusion that this motion does not deserve to be admitted...On careful analysis and reflection, I find there is virtually no concrete verifiable imputation. We cannot allow any of our pillars of governance to be weakened by any thought, word or action,” he said, adding, “In the absence of credible and verifiable information placed before me which gives an indication of ‘misbehavior’ or ‘incapacity’, it would be inappropriate and irresponsible act to accept statement which have (sic) little imperial basis,” he said.
Mr Naidu further said that he was satisfied that admission of this notice of motion was “neither desirable nor proper”.
Turning to the Rajya Sabha handbook to reject the impeachment motion, he said: “In passing, I am constrained to observe that in this matter, the well-established parliamentary customs and conventions as have been delineated in para 2.2 of the Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, have been disregarded.”
However, the decision to go to court seemed to be the Congress’ alone. Other parties who had signed the motion, including Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party remained largely non-committal.
