New Delhi: Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar on Thursday expressed disappointment at the Supreme Court's upholding the constitutional validity of legal amendments dispensing with domicile requirement for Rajya Sabha elections.
"The decision is very unfortunate and disappointing," Nayyar, one of the petitioners said.
"The Rajya Sabha is the council of states. If anybody from any part of the country can contest from any state and does not need to be a resident of that state, then where is the representation of states?," he asked.
Nayyar also disapproved of the open ballot system which he felt had "opened the floodgates for money-bags and mafias." The veteran journalist has decided to mobilise public opinion on the issue.
"I am going to speak to the retired chief justices of the country and mobilise public opinion on the matter," he said.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal had on Wednesday dismissed a bunch of petitions filed by some former MPs, including Kuldip Nayyar and Inderjit, seeking the striking down of amendments to sections 3, 49, 94 and 128 of Representation of the People Act on the ground that it was contrary to the Constitutional scheme.
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