New Delhi, April 17 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said India cannot have a situation where the judiciary directs the President, adding that Article 142 of the Constitution has become a "nuclear missile against democratic forces for the judiciary."

Speaking at the Valedictory Function of the sixth Rajya Sabha Internship Programme at the Vice-President's Enclave, Dhankhar proposed an amendment to Article 145(3), which deals with the composition of the bench required to decide substantial questions of constitutional law.

"We cannot have a situation where you direct the President of India ,and on what basis? The only right you have under the Constitution is to interpret the Constitution under Article 145(3). There, it has t...