Sanjay Shangloo

NEW DELHI: Arif Mohammad Khan, a vocal voice against triple talaq and who had resigned from the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet in protest against the enactment of a law to nullify the Supreme Court verdict in the Shah Bano case, has been appointed governor of Kerala, a state where BJP has been struggling to make its presence felt. Senior BJP leader and former Uttarakhand CM Bhagat Singh Koshyari, 77, will be the new governor of Maharashtra.

Till recently, the trend was that lawyers argued their cases and waited for the judgment. Most accepted the judgments of the Supreme Court, howsoever unpalatable they might be. But some minced no words in criticising a judgment if it went beyond the established cannons of law and precedents set by the SC. Some prominent senior advocates have started a new trend. They first write articles in newspapers and web portals raising doubts about the SC's efficacy to deal with a particular case.

Kerala's newly-appointed governor Arif Mohammad Khan during a book launch 'Imam-e-Hind Ram' , in New Delhi on ...Read More NEW DELHI: A few hours after his appointment as Kerala governor was announced, Arif Mohammad Khan on Sunday said several issues facing the country would be automatically resolved if people returned to their roots and accepted their country's ethos and heritage. "We should feel proud of our civilisation, culture and heritage.