Mujeeb Masood Khan

Law, Public Policy, Politics !

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

RTI & PIL are part of India's legal framework.Dismissing them as "business"contradicts judiciary's constitutional duty

Judiciary must act with dignity & restraint. Loose remarks defying laws set dangerous precedent

Judges should exercise discretion within legal bounds,not whims

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

RTI activism has become a business, you don’t allow people to work: Supreme Court

Read here: https://t.co/7kzKm17oZD

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Our Electoral democracy is compromised in multiple ways:
A lapdog ECI which is selectively removing & adding voters thru a corrupt & non-Transparent SIR.
EVMs which increasingly seem manipulated & ECI refusing to give source code of software in them.
Not counting VVPAT slips.
ECI not putting out voting figures of Form 17C in public domain.
Increasing the Votes declared after polls in next few days before counting.
Not providing CCTV footage of queues outside polling booths.
Arbitrarily rejecting nominations of opposition candidates.
Selectively enforcing model code of conduct only against opposition candidates.

Unfortunately, the Courts, particularly the SC is playing along with the govt & ECI in this throttling of democracy.
Judges should remember that going along with the govt in throttling democracy may secure them a promotion & post retirement jobs, but is creating increasing distrust & anger against them. They will go out in ignominy & will be insulted in public & by posterity. This is exactly what happened to judges who failed to protect democracy & rights in the past. On the other hand, judges who stood up are revered & worshipped. See Justice Khanna & Justice Krishna Iyer as some shining examples

[Paras Nath Singh @parasnsingh95]

Anil Masih was caught on camera tampering with ballot papers. What consequences did he face? None. Not even an FIR.

Now we have a case involving the gross abuse of power by the Returning Officer in the Meenakshi Natarajan case. By the time her election petition, if she files one, is decided, her opponent may well have completed his tenure.

We are a country where jokes, unfavourable media reports, and even comedy often attract harsher reaction from the courts than the actions of authorities entrusted with maintaining the rule of law and upholding democratic principles. Those authorities face little to no accountability for failing miserably to discharge their responsibilities and for abusing the powers vested in them.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

Same vibe !

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Synchronised clapping at the cabinet meeting

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

India has also become a Land of Hypocrites .
Do listen !
What is the rationale behind holding a badminton tournament in London when the Govt expected citizens to follow austerity measures?

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

Should not we demand the resignation of the home minister for failing to protect the Muslims? No question of accountability here?

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

Rights are never handed back through silence, they are demanded.

For a year, @RuhullahMehdi warned that passive diplomacy would fail. Moving the struggle to Delhi proves his stance right.

Visible, institutional resistance is the only way forward.

[Gulistan News @GulistanNewsTV]

Addressing the media after the high-level National Conference meeting, NC chief spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq announced that all NC MLAs, MPs and allied legislators will stage a protest in New Delhi on the opening day of Mansoon Parliament session over the statehood.

#JammuAndKashmir #NationalConference #Statehood @JKNC_ @tanvirsadiq

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

The "Feudal Lord Vibe".

Calling public representatives to an"off-site" like they’re corporate subordinates or feudal subjects

The voters didn't elect a Maharaja to hold court,they elected a government to serve

19 months of total isolation can't be fixed by a day of forced nods

[Omar Abdullah @OmarAbdullah]

We are off for an off-site to spend the day taking stock of the last 19 months - the good, the not so good & everything in between.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

Eid Mubarak.

We ask for no favors, No special treatment & No sympathy.

Just let us pray, let us breathe & let us live.

Live and let live !

#EidMubarak

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

This simply is about right & wrong.

The Common practice is that exams on religious occasions irrespective of religion are avoided.

DU declared Eid a gazetted holiday yet scheduled exams on same day,Knowing that this Eid involves an essential practice Qurbani, this is deliberate

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

@LiveLawIndia It simply is about right & wrong.

The Common practice is that exams on religious occasions irrespective of religion are avoided.

DU declared Eid a gazetted holiday yet scheduled exams on same day, Knowing that this Eid involves an essential practice Qurbani, this is deliberate.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

A 12-year-old girl was prima facie raped & murdered in Budgam. We are broken & furious.

This evil betrays everything we stand for. Our daughters are not safe-in fact,no one is.

Rising crime & drugs are destroying us. We demand the swiftest, harshest punishment for this monster.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

Junaid sahib, the real issue is not who is functioning like CM, but, under what constitutional authority J&K was converted from a State to a UT ?

And

Whether that conversion has been conclusively settled in law ?

Unless that is answered, the rest is political noise.

[Syed Junaid Hashmi @SyedJunaidHsmi]

The argument that “LG is the real CM, @OmarAbdullah is merely de-jure CM and LoP @Sunil_SharmaBJP is the de-facto CM” may sound politically catchy but constitutionally, it is an oversimplification and administratively a dangerous argument. J&K is a Union Territory with a legislature not Union Territory without an elected government.
Section-53 of J&K Reorganisation Act-2019
clearly states that there shall be a Council of Ministers consisting of not more than 10 percent of the total number of members in the Legislative Assembly with Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise Lieutenant Governor in the exercise of his functions in relation to matters with respect to which the Legislative Assembly has power to make laws except in so far as he is required by or under this Act to act in his discretion or by or under any law to exercise any judicial or quasi-judicial functions.
Furthermore, Transaction of Business Rules-2020, envision a functioning executive structure where departments, ministers, Chief Secretary and Chief Minister form part of a coherent chain of governance and decision-making not mere ceremonial spectators.
Yes, unlike a full-fledged state, J&K’s elected government does not control certain subjects such as police and public order and LG retains specific discretionary powers.
However, the elected government still exercises substantial authority over large areas of administration: development, health, education, public works, power, local governance and day-to-day executive functioning.
Existing structure clearly grants powers to CM and his Council of Ministers within a defined framework. The real question is whether those powers are being exercised effectively.
If more than 1,000 officers transferred by the democratically elected government are not listening to their controlling heads, then to whom exactly are they answerable?
If more than 1,000 engineers transferred through official orders are not responsive to ministerial directives, then what institutional mechanism is enforcing accountability?
Chief Minister in a Union Territory cannot repeatedly invoke structural limitations as a permanent defense against accountability. Governance is not merely about possessing powers on paper; it is about asserting constitutional authority, ensuring compliance within the system and making the administrative machinery answerable to the people.
People of Jammu and Kashmir have given massive mandate to National Conference and elected a government to govern not to explain why governance is difficult?
Those who believe the elected government is powerless would do a great service to J&K if they could cite even a single instance where an administrative decision taken by the NC-led Government has been reversed by the @OfficeOfLGJandK @manojsinha_.
Moreover, why would a constitutionally constrained government order massive reshuffles in departments infamous for being breeding grounds of “transfer dukandari”?
This very action demonstrates executive’s commitment to institutional accountability and administrative reform actions that would be meaningless if the government truly lacked executive authority.
The answer lies not in constitutional theory but in institutional practice either the government exercises its powers and is held accountable for the results or it concedes the premises of those who claim it possesses none.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

Ladakh’s leaders chose a collective cause, J&K’s leaders chose personal privilege.

While Ladakh stood unyielding, our leaders traded our autonomy for a seat. Your selfishness brought this mayhem.

Ladakh proved Delhi listens to resolve, our leaders only know surrender.

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

What Ladakh achieved in 7 years, we failed to achieve in 70. A population of barely 3 lakh persuaded the Government of India, J&K couldn’t.

There’s a lesson for Jammu & Kashmir.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

A blatant insult to the Constitution is being staged in plain sight

The MHA held talks on Ladakh with a group led by @Wangchuk66, whom it earlier branded a threat to India’s sovereignty & detained under the NSA, before releasing him on March14

Are we expected to cheer on this ?

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

MHA proposes “UT with legislative powers” to Ladakh, stops short of calling it a State or the head as Chief Minister, the yet-to-be-named elected body will have greater financial,administrative and executive powers, Safeguards akin to Article 371. I ✍️
https://t.co/X24Su2X7pO

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

@sheikhahmad11 Spot on. Eid is just the symptom, the daily struggle is the disease. When trade bodies trade real advocacy for photo ops, the mandate is broken.
We need urgent structural intervention, not PR, to survive this daily economic collapse

The silence from trade leadership is deafening

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

ECONOMIC ALERT #Kashmir 🚨

Eid is here, but the markets are dead, pockets are empty & families are collapsing under debt. This is NOT a slowdown. This is a CRISIS.

An Economic depression is unfolding in real time. This is an economic emergency !
#Eid
#EconomicCrisis

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

@barandbench Recalling earlier observations, why ? The law doesn’t work according to anyone whims.

What a mockery !

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

@barandbench @RitwikinCourt Entirely wrong, before & now too !

We have a 3judge bench judgement of the SC which is a binding as per Art141 of the Indian constitution, thrown to gallows by a 2judge bench of the same SC. This is a mockery of the law !

We are witnessing the dismantling of the Constitution.

[Mujeeb Masood Khan @formujeebkhan]

@CJP_for_India They won’t unless forced. Their clan feasts while ordinary people struggle to feed their families.
Demand your rights & stop being a passive devotee.
Don’t wait for change, be the change.