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“Let us remain within the Constitution”

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee joined the debate on the Election Commission on Wednesday, virtually criticising Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami’s recommendation to remove Election Commissioner Navin Chawla.

“Every institution today is trying to sort of either create problems for itself or denigrate itself. Instead of doing our respective work, we are trying to find out how to score points over each other,” he told reporters.

Mr. Chatterjee said he had been of the view always that there was a ‘Laxman Rekha’ (delineating line) for every institution. “Let us remain within that as the Constitution provides. Let us all try to do our work honestly and sincerely. Let us get rid of corruption first. These are issues to be tackled, not fight among ourselves,” he said. Did he disapprove of Mr. Gopalaswami’s action? Such things cannot be sorted out through the media, he said — PTI

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