Banning Party Name On Religious Lines Is Upto Parliament: Court
NDTV
"These are policy issues and they need to be dealt with by the Parliament," the Delhi HIgh Court said. .
The Delhi High Court has said the issue raised in a petition seeking de-registration of political parties having names with caste, religious, ethnic or linguistic connotations and flags resembling the tricolour has to be decided by the Parliament as it is not in the domain of judiciary.
The court was hearing the petition filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
"These are policy issues and they need to be dealt with by the Parliament. We don't make laws... If we decide this, we will be entering into the policy domain... Parliament will take a call on this. This is their domain," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna said.
