Senator Irfan Siddiqui press conference on constitution Amendments after supreme court case of PTI MNA spacial seets

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Irfan Siddiqui press conference on supreme court case of PTI MNA spacial seets and constitution Amendments in national assembly

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00:00And a dictator wants to validate me, he gets validation and also says that you can amend as much as you want, you have the right to do so.

00:09What is this?

00:11We have seen these courts, the country has paid for it.

00:15Now, for God's sake, you are a legal court, the biggest legal court.

00:20You are working according to the law.

00:23And according to the law, according to the law, according to the country's regulations, the matters will move forward.

00:28What has happened here is that instead of moving forward, the matter has been made so complicated, so complicated,

00:36that it has become very difficult for us to solve any of its puzzles.

00:40Before going into the details, I come to my question, which is in my mind,

00:46and I want this question to be discussed, its answer to be found without any prejudice, without any political discrimination.

00:56The question is that every day we come to know that such and such law of the parliament,

01:03the court has terminated it because it is contrary to any form of the law.

01:18It was declared non-landwide.

01:20And something was found on it that it is contrary to such and such form of the law and is not in accordance with it.

01:29Okay, it has been happening and we keep tolerating it.

01:33This is also the right of the court to explain and look at the laws.

01:37Okay, now when the law is made, there is a long process in it.

01:42Those of you who often do reporting know how a law is made, then how it is vetted,

01:49how the law ministry looks at it, how it goes to the Standing Committee,

01:54how it goes to the two committees, how it is passed.

01:57It is a long process.

01:59If there are 342 or 338 members of the National Assembly,

02:03if there are 100 members of the National Assembly,

02:05then the people who are around 450, they look at it and pass it or reject it.

02:14So I want to put my question to you again.

02:19I want to stress on this and the central point of this press conference is also that

02:25does our law, which is passed by the parliament after such a long process,

02:33one or two or three or four or eight judges say that it is contrary to the law,

02:40we accept it.

02:42We either repeal that law or we amend it.

02:46Today the question has arisen that is it possible in this court

02:52that a small or large bench of the 13 or 14 or 15 or 17 judges can make a mistake or not?

03:03Can the judges of the court, like us, like parliamentarians,

03:08make mistakes like humans or is it a tribe of prophets that cannot make mistakes?

03:17If it is possible,

03:19and we think that this decision has been made more than once,

03:24the constitution has been broken again and again,

03:26and the law of 2017 has been broken again and again,

03:29the election act has been broken.

03:31So if we make a mistake, then the court amends it.

03:36In the name of God.

03:37When the court commits a very big mistake,

03:40and a wrong decision that is directly contrary to the constitution comes forward,

03:46what were its reasons?

03:48What were its reasons?

03:49Was it a view of complete justice?

03:51Was it a view of need?

03:53Was it a view of convenience?

03:54There is no debate on this.

03:55A decision on which the entire nation is present,

03:58now those who say that it is right, it will be wrong,

04:01but it is a decision of the court, we have to accept it.

04:03We accept this principle.

04:05But today it should be decided that when such a decision,

04:09which is contrary to the constitution,

04:11if we do something contrary to the constitution,

04:14then there is a forum, the court corrects it.

04:17If the court does the same thing as we do,

04:19then who will correct it?

04:21This is the question I wanted to ask.

04:23I can give a lot of detail in this.

04:26Look, in this decision,

04:28such things have happened that are inevitable.

04:31The constitution says that in three days,

04:33those people who are elected,

04:35and this is what article 17 of our election act explains,

04:40they have to join a party within three days.

04:43This is the logic.

04:44So that before going to the assembly,

04:46they can correct their Qibla,

04:49and start horse-trading there.

04:51That yes, sometimes I voted for this, sometimes I voted for that.

04:54The constitution gives three days,

04:56the law gives three days,

04:57and says that either you join a party,

05:00or remain independent.

05:01Now, despite the fact that the people who came independent around 1980,

05:05they were conscious people,

05:07they voluntarily joined a party,

05:11which was called the Sunni Unity Council.

05:16Now they went into it.

05:18Now according to the constitution,

05:20they went into such a cage that was closed.

05:23The constitution keeps that cage closed for five years,

05:26does not open it.

05:27It says that you have decided to remain independent,

05:30for the next five years you will be independent.

05:33Now this constitutional condition,

05:36this constitutional system,

05:39you break it.

05:41You open that lock,

05:43open the cage,

05:44which the constitution does not allow,

05:46and tell the prisoners to come out.

05:48They cannot come out.

05:49Legally and constitutionally they cannot come out.

05:51And you not only take those birds out,

05:54you also tell them to fly,

05:56and not to go here,

05:57and not to go there,

05:58and not to go there,

05:59and not to go there,

06:00only to a special asylum,

06:02and go sit in a PTI asylum.

06:04What is this?

06:06What is this constitution?

06:08What is this law,

06:09what is this constitution?

06:10And then when the law says three days,

06:14where did you get fifteen days from?

06:16And the constitution says three days,

06:18these fifteen working days,

06:20which spread and become twenty-five days.

06:22Where did you get this from?

06:24And the constitution says three days,

06:26these fifteen working days,

06:2820-25 days. Where did this power come from? If you have taken this power, then you have

06:35taken it wrong. Then, let's go ahead. Sunni Ijtihad Council goes that we need special

06:41seats near the Election Commission. The Election Commission rejects your request from all four.

06:48You take an appeal and go. You are told that we have a very good court. It has a very soft

06:55court. It will give us a decision. You go to Peshawar High Court, leaving Islamabad High

07:01Court. Five senior judges of Peshawar High Court sit and give the decision of all five

07:08that you cannot get these seats. You come from there, Sunni Ijtihad Council. You go

07:13to the Supreme Court. Now, the decision of the Supreme Court is that Sunni Ijtihad Council

07:19you cannot get these seats. The matter ends. But from here, that view of need breaks. That

07:26view of convenience breaks. And that view of complete justice breaks, which we do not

07:33understand any logic. Under complete justice, we are giving these seats to the party that

07:39neither went to the Speaker that we need these seats, nor went to the Election Commission

07:45that we need these seats, nor went to the High Court that we need these seats, nor went

07:50to the Supreme Court that we need these seats. Till today, I am discussing this with you,

07:55till today, in the Sunni Ijtihad Council, the PTI members who went, none of them said

08:02on any forum that we want to change our party. Under which law, if I belong to PMLN, under

08:10which law can you tell me to leave PMLN and go to People's Party, or go to PTI, or go

08:17to MPM? How can you do this? There are countless miracles in this, in this decision, which

08:25are directly contrary to the constitution. That is why I repeatedly ask this question

08:30and I am raising that when such a situation arises, what should we do? In the past, we

08:36kept seeing a lot. Four Marshallas were appointed, none of them stood up for us. We repeatedly

08:43say that the Marshallas destroyed us. Yes, the Marshallas destroyed us. It is the character

08:48of the Marshallas, it is the character of the dictators to destroy the country. Ten

08:52times more than them is the character of those courts that glorified those dictators. Today,

08:57if the Parliament says that we want to amend the constitution, then it is a disaster.

09:02The dictator wants to validate me, he also gets validation and also says that you can

09:07amend the constitution as much as you want. What is this? We have seen these courts, they

09:14suffer, the country has suffered. Now, for God's sake, you are a constitutional court,

09:19the biggest constitutional court. You are working under the constitution. You are not

09:25independent. The Parliament is also not independent. There is no roof over these two. We have also

09:31taken the oath that we will uphold the constitution. You have also taken the oath that you will

09:35uphold the constitution. How do you uphold the constitution? If we do not uphold the

09:39constitution, then you arrest us. When you do not uphold the constitution, then tell

09:44us where we should go. When there are two ways in front of the Parliament, that what

09:49the constitution says, they should follow it, or if someone says a non-constitutional

09:56constitution, then they should follow it. These two ways they have put in front of us.

10:00And they have created a problem for us that what should we do and where should we go.

10:04And then after that, you can see their way of doing things, they have given a decision.

10:09Two days later, our second appeal went on. A week later, the appeal of the People's

10:14Party went on. It has been two months. It has been more than 60 days. Those appeals

10:19have not been filed yet. And there is a stick that why is it not being implemented? It

10:23is not being implemented.

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