Audit the MPs - Justice Hegde in Central Excise Meeting
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.ADDRESSING the Vigilance Awareness meeting organised by the Central Excise Commissionerate of Mangalore, Justice Santosh Hegde said that there should be a mechanism to audit the annual performance, conduct and attendance of each and every Parliamentarian in the Parliament sessions. Based on this, the citizens should be given a right to recall the representative who has failed them.
He said that all the three organs provided in the Constitution - the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary have failed - no organ is better than the other as corruption has invaded each one of them. Corruption has entered almost every field and corporates and even NGOs should be included in the definition of Public Servants.
He also said, “The salary you are drawing is not insufficient to maintain your family. The feeling of pride of earning legitimately is disappearing.”