‘Congress Should Know Its Previous’: BJP Shares Outdated Video Of Indira Gandhi Amid Nishikant Dubey’s SC Comment Row – News18

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The video dates again to Indira Gandhi’s response to the Shah Fee, arrange in 1977 to probe the excesses through the Emergency.
BJP chief Amit Malviya and former PM Indira Gandhi | File Picture
Amid the political row over BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s current criticism of the Supreme Court docket, the saffron celebration on Monday shared a decades-old video of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi questioning the Indian judiciary system.
Final week, Dubey stirred an argument by saying that if the Supreme Court docket continues to behave like a legislative physique, then parliament shouldn’t exist within the nation. The remark triggered criticism from the opposition, with the BJP distancing itself from the feedback.
BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya posted a clip from an interview on X, saying: “Indira Gandhi — the Congress should know its personal previous”. Within the video, Gandhi may very well be heard questioning a high courtroom choose’s competence to evaluate political dynamics and financial threats.
“How does Mr. Shah know what is occurring within the political world? What are the forces at work which wish to destroy a creating economic system? Is a choose competent to determine that? Then why have democracy? Why have elections? Why have political folks in energy? How does Mr. Shah know what is occurring within the political world? What are the forces at work which wish to destroy a creating economic system? Is a choose competent to determine that?” mentioned Indira Gandhi within the video shared by the BJP chief.
The video dates again to Indira Gandhi’s response to the Shah Fee, arrange in 1977 to probe the excesses through the Emergency. Headed by Justice JC Shah, the fee had criticised the focus of energy below her management and investigated points like censorship, police brutality, and compelled sterilisation drives.
Dubey on Saturday made a powerful comment on the apex courtroom’s listening to of the Waqf (Modification) Act, saying: “If the Supreme Court docket makes the regulation then the Parliament Home must be closed.” The comment triggered heated reactions from the opposition events.
Dubey additionally posted his ANI video clip on X wherein, whereas responding to a query on the Waqf regulation and the current violence in West Bengal, he mentioned: “Iss desh mein jitne grih yuddha ho rahe hain unke zimmedar kewal yahaan ke Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna Sahab hain (CJI Sanjiv Khanna is liable for all civil wars on this nation).”
He additionally questioned the highest courtroom’s current order that successfully set a deadline for the President and Governors to clear Payments handed by the legislature for the second time.
“How are you going to give course to the appointing authority? The President appoints the Chief Justice of India. You’ll dictate that Parliament? You wish to take this nation in direction of anarchy,” Dubey mentioned in a press release.
Congress Assaults BJP
Reacting to BJP MP’s remarks on the Supreme Court docket, advocate and Congress chief Salman Khurshid mentioned, “It’s a matter of nice disappointment if an MP questions the Supreme Court docket or any courtroom. In our authorized system, the ultimate phrase will not be of the federal government, it’s of the Supreme Court docket. If somebody doesn’t perceive this, then it’s a matter of nice disappointment.”
One other Congress chief, Jairam Ramesh, additionally skilled weapons at Dubey, accusing the chief and the BJP of attempting to weaken India’s high courtroom.
“They’re attempting to weaken the Supreme Court docket. Constitutional functionaries, ministers, and BJP MPs are talking in opposition to the Supreme Court docket because the Supreme Court docket is saying one factor when a regulation is made, you shouldn’t go in opposition to the fundamental construction of the structure and if the regulation is in opposition to the structure, we is not going to settle for it,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the BJP distanced itself from Dubey’s remarks, stating that they had been made within the MP’s private capability and the celebration neither agrees nor does it ever assist such statements.