"Parliament has legislative jurisdiction," Nayyar Bukhari
"Parliament has legislative jurisdiction," Nayyar Bukhari
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00:00People's Party's senior leader, Nayyar Bukhari, is with us.
00:03First of all, please tell us, there has been a lot of opposition to the election act.
00:09PTI, JUI, FAE have also opposed it and expressed their reservations.
00:14Do you think there is some weight in the opposition?
00:18Thank you.
00:20The request is that legalisation is the responsibility of the parliament.
00:26Legalisation in the parliament is based on the majority.
00:33If they have passed a bill, the majority was with them.
00:38It was their right and their prerogative.
00:43The law was passed.
00:46Whether the law is good or bad, they are obviously criticizing.
00:51First, there was an ordinance.
00:54After the ordinance, there was an objection that it should not be legalised.
00:59It is an insult to the parliament.
01:01Obviously, the provision of the ordinance in Article 89 is that
01:06when there is no session, the National Assembly or the Senate will come.
01:10Now, I will say that this is the will of the people.
01:15Because the people who are sitting there are the representatives of the people's election.
01:20So, opposition by opposition or objection by objection is not appropriate.
01:25There is no such thing that is illegal or illegal.
01:30In that, the number of judges was increased.
01:35The former judge can also head the tribunal.
01:40Take a look at the case of the prime minister or the chief election commissioner.
01:47After that, civil servants were added.
01:52Experts were also added.
01:54So, this is the will of the people.
01:57Their representatives have done this.
01:59So, legalisation was their right.
02:01Okay.
02:03So, in this regard, it is better that the former judges of the High Court will also be included.
02:10Because their understanding of the law and because they have already given decisions in this regard,
02:16it can go towards further improvement.
02:19So, apart from this, what other steps do you think should be taken?
02:22If we talk about electoral reforms or other things, you know that our elections are often tainted.
02:29So, what is your understanding that what other decisions should be taken towards the fairness of elections?
02:34Two things are very important.
02:37One is that there are laws that should be sincerely implemented.
02:42Okay.
02:44And there should be elections with continuity.
02:48When there is a gap in the system, the system gets derailed.
02:54Then things go towards ruin.
02:58If there had been continuous elections in this country from 1947 to now,
03:03then perhaps public reform would have been very trained and understood.
03:09Political parties would have been accountable.
03:12So, it is very important that the continuity of the system should be maintained.
03:17Okay.
03:18Secondly, when it comes to judges' appointments or elections,
03:23it is very unfortunate that the election petitions are never completed and are not decided.
03:29Hmm.
03:30And then there is no benefit of this law.
03:34This law has been confined to the books only.
03:38Practically, there is no effect on it.
03:41So, the number of tribunals should be such that the election petitions are decided on time.
03:51I think the time frame is given, but there are delaying factors as well.
03:56The winner uses delaying factors as well.
03:59Sometimes he earns through lawyers, sometimes through his absence,
04:02and sometimes he puts in a frivolous application.
04:05So, we should ensure that the election petitions should be decided within a time frame.
04:12Okay.
04:13Okay, Mr. Nair Bukhari, thank you so much for your time.
04:17Justice delayed, justice denied.
04:19Yes, but there is a different kind of point that has been raised by the opposition.
04:25They say that the non-elected people are being made powerful.
04:30They also say that it is against the constitution.
04:33Let's see what happens in further debate.
04:35And this whole situation has come in front of us.