of india article 301 what does it mean it means that a factory in tamil nadu can sell its goods freely in up or punjab or anywhere the up government cannot say we will not allow entry of goods from tamil nadu article 301 ensures the economic unity of india and political unity is based on economic unityq moving back to recent times my question about the lokpal bill and specifically about the legality issues there have been arguments made that the prime ministry and judiciary or certain types of people cannot come under the lokpal bill because it is against the constitution i wanted to find out what is your opinion in terms of whether such a issue exists or it has been politically createda i would not like to express my opinion on this issue because it is a highly politically sensitive issue it is premature for me to commentq any comments about the corruption in the judiciary and what needs to be done to eradicate thata yes there is corruption in the judiciary we have been taking strong steps the present chief justice of india justice kapadia is a thoroughly honest man he is taking strong steps there is no corrupt judge in the indian supreme court today i am not commenting about the past but today none of my colleagues is corrupt i am talking about the supreme court not of high courts so we do take steps to check it i myself have been taking steps to check it i passed a very strong judgment about my parent high court the allahabad high court because some wrong things were being done and i said something is rotten in allahabad high court which made some judges unhappy but i clarified that there were excellent judges tooq my question is more with the current times if you look at the us supreme court there are some justices like justice scalia and others who are basically very so called constitutional so my question is what is your thinking in terms of any of those is your thinking in line with those in terms of opinions that is one question and the second is who is your favourite us supreme court justicea i agree with scalia that judges should not normally legislate judges should normally not encroach into the legislative or executive domain where i disagree with scalia is that he thinks that even in exceptional cases this should not be done i feel in certain exceptional cases it has to be done sometimes in exceptional cases we have to legislate where the situation is so drastic for example delhi had become a gas chamber those of you who had visited delhi 10 years back know that it was almost impossible to breathe properly then today in delhi there is relatively fresh air because of the supreme court directives which were legislative in nature so sometimes we have to do it though normally that is the job of the