Bishan Tandon's book on events leading to imposition of Emergency, PMO Diary, said that Indira Gandhi was "terribly afraid" of this person becoming the CJI.
Remembering the multifaceted personality #KSHegde, who LIVED & SERVED Humanity all his life.
On the Jayanti of #KSHegde, a sincere tribute for founder of #NITTE , Ex Speaker of LokSabha, Ex VP of BJP and Ex RS Member from Congress.
Kawdoor Sadananda Hegde was born on 11 June 1909 at village Kawdoor of Karkala Taluk, Hegde did his primary at Karkala and moved to
Mangalore for Higher education.
He completed his degree and law from Madras.
K S Hegde started his practice in 1933 & helped Farming community, while he worked as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor during the period 1947-51.
Hegde was elected to the Rajya Sabha as a
Congress Party nominee in 1952, served till 1957.
He was a member of the Panel of Chairmen and of the Public Accounts Committee & the Rules Committee.
In 1957, Hegde resigned from the Rajya Sabha when he was appointed a Judge of the Mysore High Court.
In 1966, he was appointed as the first Chief Justice of the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh High Court.
In 1967, he was appointed by the President as Judge of the Supreme Court.
This section is an important read....
As a judge of the Supreme Court of India,
his lordship was also a part of the UNPRECEDENTED 13 Judge Bench (Never Before & Never Again) which decided the famous Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala.
It was a sharply divided verdict, by a margin of 7-6, the court held that while the Parliament has "wide" powers,
it did not have the power to destroy or emasculate the basic elements or fundamental features of the constitution.
Justice K S Hegde & J J Mukherjee wrote in the judgement that infuriated Indira Gandhi.
They held that the Constitution of India which is essentially a social
rather than a political document, is founded on a social philosophy & as such has two main features basic and circumstantial.
The basic constituent remained constant, the circumstantial was subject to change and the broad contours of the basic elements and the fundamental
features of the Constitution are delineated in the preamble and the Parliament has no power to abolish or emasculate those basic elements of fundamental features.
The building of a welfare State is the ultimate goal of every Govt but that does not mean that in order to build
a welfare State, human freedoms have to suffer a total destruction.
Applying these tests, the learned Judges invalidated Article 31C even in its un-amended form.
Indira didn't take kindly to this implied restriction on her by the court.
On 26 April 73, Justice Ajit Nath Ray
who sided with her, was promoted as CJI superseding three senior Judges, Shelat, Grover and Hegde, which was unprecedented in Indian legal history.
Advocate C.K. Daphtary termed it as "the blackest day in the history of democracy".
Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, previous CJI
remarked that "this was an attempt of not creating 'forward looking judges' but 'judges looking forward' to the office of Chief Justice.
On 30th April 1973, Justice Hegde resigned as SC Judge as a matter of principle.
In 1977, he was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha from
Bangalore South constituency on a Janata Party ticket.
On 21 July 1977, the first time Loksabha MP K S Hegde was elected as the Speaker following the resignation of Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy to contest the election to the office of the President of India.
Infact L K Advani suggested K S Hegde for the Post of president but Reddy got the nod.
Hegde retired from electoral politics after Lok Sabha was dissolved in 1979. He joined BJP when it was founded in 1980 and briefly served as its vice-president.
He then established
THE #NITTE in 1979 to provide a high school to the village of Nitte and today
it is deemed to be university, thanks to his efforts.
Justice K S Hegde joined Lotus feet on 24 May 1990 at his residence in Mangalore, and left behind his wife Meenakshi and six children,
three sons and three daughters, including well known Justice Santosh Hegde and Vinayaka who
runs NITTE.
Nurtured By Biju Patnaik, Destroyed By Jyoti Basu.
He Conquered all the Ocean's of the world, Padma Bhushan Recepient and a successful businessman, but couldn't withstand the waves of political vendetta by Jyoti Basu.
The man who swam into world record books by conquering the English Channel and Palk Straits, said this
“I had undertaken this perilous swim not to gain fame or trophies but to prove once again to the world that Indians are no longer afraid”.
Ladies...
Did you know that #Lakme you use is named after Maha Lakshmi?
The idea behind establishing Lakme was born after Nehru approached JRD Tata to indigenously produce cosmetics as Indian women were splurging the country’s precious foreign reserves on foreign make-up brands.
Lakmé was introduced as India’s first homegrown cosmetics brand in 1952. It was a subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills.
The name Lakme is a French word for Maha Lakshmi, known for her beauty. This was suggested by the brand’s French collaborators, Robert Piguet and Renoir.
Lakme was a popular opera in France by Léo Delibes, named after its protagonist who was inspired by the Indian goddess.
Lakme was groundbreaking for the Indian market because it offered cosmetics suitable for Indian skin types, for which extensive research was carried out.
Yes, there was One.
On this day in 1964, he took charge as Prime Minister of Bharath.
In this thread 🧵, we will visit the timeline of the last nationalist PM Congress produced.
In his first broadcast as PM on June 11, 1964,
Adaraneeya Lal Bahadur Shastri said..
“There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us, there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear—
the building up of a secular mixed-economy democracy at home with freedom and prosperity, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with select nations.”
His tenure was brief, but eventful.
Whatever he achieved & tried to achieve gave effective results and helped in
1 Near to Kateel, there is Polali, abode of Rajarajeshwari.
2 At Bangalore, there is Gali Anjaneya Devasthana, established by Kanva Maharshi
3 There is Basavanagudi Ganesha Devasthana at Bangalore which is centuries old.
4 Bhadrakali Mandir at Mulki between Mangalore & Udupi
5 Shri Krishna at Udupi
6 Ambalapadi Janardhana & Bhadrakali at Udupi
7 Marikamba Devasthana at Kapu, near Udupi
8 Janardhana near Uchchila, near Udupi
9 Kolaramma Devasthana at Kolar
10 Nava-Narasimha devasthana at Shantigrama near Hassan
11 Nagamangala Soumya Keshava,
Do not miss the Nagamandala carved there.
12 Kalasheshavara Devasthana, Kalasa near Horanadu
13 Vaidyanatheshwara Devalaya at Maddur
14 Narasimha & Subramanya at Ghati near Doddaballapura
15 Bhogha Nandeeshawara Devasthana at the foot of Nandi Hills
16 Kurudumalai Ganesha & Avani
For the integration of states, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had to travel across the country.
Much to his surprise , a young girl in her early 20s from Bangalore was often one of the pilots for his flights and soon became his close friend.
She would go into history as the first
Indian lady pilot of independent India.
The life story of #UshaSundaram is divided into 2...
One as an expert Pilot & another as a compassionate mother for animals.
Will briefly explore both in this thread 🧵.
The year was 1946 when couple Usha Sundaram and V Sundaram
arrived in Bangalore and began their married life in the Garden city. They lived in a small bungalow on St Marks Road. A qualified pilot, Sundaram joined as the Director of Civil Aviation for the princely State of Mysore and in a few years, also became the principal of the