The chief justice’s comments came at a time when political parties opposed to Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party – in contrast to environmental experts – have hit out at the Delhi government for announcing a decision which they said would greatly inconvenience the public.
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“There is no difficulty in this”.
“People call it sacrifice”.
Justice T.S Thakur said everyone had to do his part to tackle the crisis, caused partly by millions of cars piling onto the city’s congested roads every day.
“Odd number hai, ya even number hai, iss se fark nahi padta (the auto has odd or even registration number does not matter), because in any case, you reach court in a vehicle”, he said.
Upadhyay also claimed that upper and middle class segment of city’s populace, which uses private vehicles as mass transport system, would be forced to buy alternate number vehicles if the ban realises.
Welcoming Kejriwal’s decision, Thakur said,”Judges can also do auto pool”. “I don’t have a problem if it helps”, he told reporters on Sunday.
“There were some recent reports which said that the pollution in Delhi had increased…”
Reacting to the Chief Justice’s views, Kejriwal said in a tweet, “Chief Justice of India’s support 2 odd even formula is welcome n huge encouragement”.
He said if Supreme Court judges pooled cars, it would send the right message to the people.
“I handle the politics of this Delhi governance and all the ministers-handled governance. BJP does not support such moves”, party’s Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay said in a statement.
“The Delhi government will strengthen public transport from January 1”, Jain told the media here on the sidelines of a programme organised to pay tributes to Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 60th death anniversary. He said it could be discontinued if people faced problems.
“Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday may have even numbered vehicles on roads, and we do not care about which automobiles belonged to whom”, Jain stated.
The Delhi Congress also alleged that the odd-even vehicle number formula is “pre-mature, “ill-conceived and without preparations”.
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The minister has additionally sought individuals’s recommendations on the government’s odd-even formulation.
