Former CJI Bhushan Gavai’s opinion, sought by the Congress-backed directors and sent to the government before the Cabinet decision, called the move a “colourable exercise of powers”. Fadnavis says Gavai wasn’t told about the quorum deadlock
Activist Shyam Manav, founder-president of the Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, stated that Justice Gavai had now lost the right to invoke the name of Dr B R Ambedkar.
