Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Apoorva Mandhani November 10, 2018 11:57 am Change Font Size Supreme Court judge, Justice KM Joseph recently emphasized on the need for “cooperative Federalism” for India to become a “naturally indestructible formation”. “Both the Centre and the States must imbibe a genuine spirit of co-operative Federalism, if not collaborative Federalism. There can be no Centre without States. The States are integrated into one nation, both based on social, economic and political rationale but a liberal give and take policy followed by the Centre and the States is indispensable for the continued evolution of the federal system and its blossoming, and Bharat becoming a naturally indestructible formation,” he said. Justice Joseph was delivering the Justice VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Law lecture on ‘Federalism in India-Past, Present and Future’. The lecture, that was presided over by Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala, was succeeded by the distribution of the Third Justice VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Legal Literary Award for Lawyers. Justice Joseph began his address by remembering Justice Krishna Iyer as someone who combined top-class intellect with compassion, and never shied away from speaking out loud and clear on behalf of the oppressed, depressed and the poor. “Whether you agreed with him or not you could neither silence him nor ignore him,” he rightly added. He embarked on elaborating on the superiority of qualities possessed by Justice Iyer, saying, “To cap it all, he was the most brilliant orator I have ever heard. His… [Read full story]
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