Jammu Tawi, March 26 -- Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said the executive, legislature and judiciary are not pitted against each other and they have to function in tandem with checks and balances.

He made the comments in Rajya Sabha a day after saying "things would have been different" if the mechanism for judicial appointments - referring to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) - had not been struck down by the Supreme Court.

The reference to NJAC on Tuesday in the Upper House came amid a row over the discovery of wads of currency notes at the New Delhi home of Justice Yashwant Varma.

Dhankhar had called a meeting of leaders of various political parties to discuss the fallout of ...