Before bifurcating the Allahabad high court, the Central government should first bifurcate the Supreme Court and high courts in other states, otherwise the lawyers and Samajwadi Party activists would come out on the streets to oppose the move, said SP national general secretary and Allahabad MP Rewati Raman Singh while addressing lawyers at the library hall of High Court Bar Association (HCBA) here on Thursday.
He said that he also started his career as a lawyer and was like a brother of the lawyers of the Allahabad High Court. The demand for the creation of a separate bench in western Uttar Pradesh is being made for the last 30-35 years and as a member of the state legislative assembly he had always opposed it. Former MLA from Moradabad, Rama Shankar Kaushik had also opposed the proposal for creating a separate bench in western Uttar Pradesh.
He added that today they would divide the high court and tomorrow they would demand division of the rivers and so on which is unfortunate. The concept of carving small states from big states has resulted in more problems as was evident in the creation of states like Chattisgarh and Jharkhand.
