"Politicians Think They Are Privileged Class": Harish Salve On Bill To Sack Ministers

The politician is only told that you "will not run your sachivalaya(secretariat) from a prison cell" and that is perfectly sensible, Harish Salve, a former Solicitor General of India, told NDTV amid row on bills to sack ministers who have been in jail for 30 days.

"I think it's a crying shame that we need such a bill. The fact that somebody is asserting that they should have the right to discharge a solemn duty, a ministerial duty from a prison cell, despite the highest court in the land having said that they deserve to be in a prison cell, in pretrial custody undoubtedly, but in pretrial custody. The fact that such an assertion is being made makes me wonder, have we really lost touch with our democracy," said the top lawyer.