CJI for political consensus to resolve terrorism, ensure growth
Thakur, who hails from Kashmir, said during the golden jubilee of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation here on Saturday.
Chennai: India’s future, particularly its economic growth, will not be a success story if the country did not urgently resolve terrorism and other elements out to destabilise the country, Chief Justice of India Justice T.S. Thakur said and called for political consensus to address such crucial issues.
Thakur, who hails from Kashmir, said during the golden jubilee of the C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation here on Saturday, “India has to settle its critical segments for ensuring harmony for peace and inclusive growth. In the most recent context, serious issues like climate change, growing terrorism, incidents of militancy in Kashmir, Maoists insurgency, two separatist groups operating in the northeast, need to be urgently addressed with required political consensus in the larger interest of the country… Unless resolved these will be impediment to India’s progress.”
Lauding Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, the Diwan of Princely state of Travancore in1936, Thakur said CPR’s meticulous thought process for promoting and regulating industrial growth, planning for power generation, efforts to make Travancore food sufficient, infrastructural development especially laying the first cement road from Thiruvananthapuram to Kanyakumari for about 80 km which has bearings of development efforts of a smart city, his social welfare schemes like education for all and midday meal programme for school children were a profound source of inspiration on good governance.
“There is much to learn from the model of governance shown by Sir C. P. Ramaswami and improvise upon his vision for prosperous and progress of India that he had envision over half-a-century ago,” Thakur said and added that the expertise of this legal luminary who became ‘youngest advocate general’ at the age of 41 years in 1920, was relied upon to draft the constitution of Jammu and Kashmir. His expertise was also used to resolve conflict on sharing Periyar water by Travancore of Madras.
Former Governor of West Bengal Dr Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Justice Mrs Prabha Sridevan, retired Judge of the Madras high court and Dr Nandita Krishna, president of C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, were among those who spoke.
Justice Mr Thakur inaugurated the golden jubilee library and department of Classical Languages on the foundation premises and senior citizens centre at Kanchipuram, on the occasion.