Hours after his occasion distanced itself from his assertion that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna was answerable for “grih yuddhas” (civil wars) within the nation, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Sunday morning attacked former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) S Y Quraishi over his criticism of the Waqf Act, labelling him a “Muslim Commissioner”. Requested why he did so, Dubey informed The Indian Categorical that he had simply endorsed what BJP basic secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh had stated Saturday night.
Queries to the BJP about his newest assertion haven’t elicited a response but.
On Saturday night, amid the row over Dubey’s assault on the CJI and the apex court docket, Santhosh fired a salvo at former CEC Quraishi for his criticism of the legislation three days in the past.
On April 17, Quraishi had written on X, “Wakf Act is undoubtedly a blatantly sinister/evil plan of the government to seize Muslim lands. I’m positive SC will name it out. Misinformation by the mischievous propaganda machine has finished its job effectively.”
Santhosh posted in reply to Quraishi’s submit at 7.47 pm on Saturday, “Simply do not forget that this man as soon as headed the Election Fee of India. The Punya aggregated by our ancestors could be so enormous that we nonetheless breathe democracy regardless of all these characters. Land grabbing was the purpose of the ‘Wakf by Person’ clause, Quraishi Saab.”
This was two days after the federal government agreed to pause two clauses of the Act – Solicitor Common Tushar Mehta dedicated to not appoint any new member to the Central Waqf Council and state Waqf Boards, and in addition to not change the character of any Waqf-by-user property both notified or registered earlier than the Act got here into drive, until the apex court docket begins listening to it once more on Could 5.
The overall secretary (organisation) is a key submit within the BJP, historically thought of the second strongest after the occasion president, and has at all times seen core RSS individuals occupy it.
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On Sunday morning, hours after the BJP’s disapproval of his assault on the CJI, Dubey took to X once more and posted, in reply to the identical submit of Quraishi, “You weren’t an Election Commissioner, however a Muslim Commissioner; throughout your tenure, most Bangladeshi infiltrators have been made voters in Jharkhand’s Santhal Pargana.”
A day earlier, Dubey had accused the CJI not simply of being the reason for the varied ‘civil wars’ within the nation – in response to a query on Murshidabad violence – however had additionally questioned beneath which Article of the Structure the apex court docket had imposed a three-month timeline on the President of India, the appointing authority of the CJI, to offer or reject his or her assent on a legislation referred to the President by a governor. He had additionally stated that Savarna (higher caste) judges have been doing what they wished, at the same time as individuals from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Different Backward Courses have been minuscule in quantity within the judiciary.
BJP president J P Nadda distanced the occasion Saturday night time from Dubey’s remarks, saying that the BJP revered the judiciary and rejected the views personally expressed by Dubey. The Jharkhand MP had additionally informed The Indian Categorical that the views have been his personal, and that he had not talked to anybody within the occasion earlier than expressing them.
