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With the parliament passing a constitutional amendment bill to bring an end to the 20 plus years old collegium system of 'judges appointing judges', things seemed to be in sync with the popular mood of ushering in probity and transparency in public life. India is the only western democracy where judges are appointing judges, serving thus a blow to the equations of power in a democracy. The Judges, who could draw contempt of court provisions even at the slightest of slightest provocations were eventually brought under the hammer of the supreme power of the Parliament. Again, in the tussle for supremacy, the Parliament wins. And a National Judicial Appointment Commission is in the launching  (though hearings on its constitutional validity are still doing the rounds in the Supreme Court). Well! Well! Are the parliamentarians the Supreme beings in India? They decide the fate of the billion under and also the fate of  their respective parliamentary privileges too.  Articles...