New Delhi [India], April 20 (ANI): Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that BJP president JP Nadda’s distancing the party from remarks concerning the judiciary of its two MPs – Nishikant Dubey and Dinesh Sharma – carries little meaning and asked if a show cause notice has been sent to them.
In a post on X, Jairam Ramesh said the “outgoing BJP President’s clarification is ‘damage control’ and ‘will fool nobody”.
“The distancing of the outgoing BJP President from the atrocious remarks made by two BJP MPs on the Chief Justice of India carries little meaning. These MPs are repeat offenders when it comes to hate speech and are very often used by G2 to attack communities, institutions, and individuals. The outgoing BJP President’s clarification is nothing but damage control. It will fool nobody. This is Entire Political Science reflecting itself as Entire Political Hypocrisy,” he said, without taking any names.
Jairam Ramesh also apparently referred to remarks of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar in the context of the Supreme Court verdict in the case relating to Tamil Nadu Governor’s decisions concerning some bills passed by the state legislature.
“But the outgoing BJP President is totally silent on equally unacceptable remarks on the judiciary that are continually made by one of its very distinguished appointees to a high Constitutional position. What does he have to say about these remarks? Does the BJP subscribe to them? If the continued silence of the Prime Minister on these repeated attacks on the Indian Constitution is not tacitly supportive of them, why has no action been taken against these two MPs? Has Nadda ji issued show causes notices to these two MPs?” he asked.
Dubey kicked up a storm with his remarks on Saturday and said that “Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna is responsible for all the civil wars happening in this country”.
“How can you give direction to the appointing authority? The President appoints the Chief Justice of India. The Parliament makes the law of this country. You will dictate that Parliament?… How did you make a new law? In which law is it written that the President has to take a decision within three months? This means that you want to take this country towards anarchy. When the Parliament sits, there will be a detailed discussion on this,” Dubey told ANI in response to a query, referring to the Supreme Court verdict in case relating to decisions of Tamil Nadu Governor.
He also stated that Article 368 stipulates that Parliament has the authority to enact laws and the Supreme Court has the power to interpret them.
Asked about Dubey’s remarks, Dinesh Sharma had said that according to the Constitution of India, no one can direct the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and “the President has already given her assent to the bill (concerning Waqf Act)”.
Nadda distanced the BJP from Dubey’s and Sharma’s remarks and “completely rejected” them.
He said Bharatiya Janata Party has always respected the judiciary. (ANI)
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