SY Quraishi Was Muslim Commissioner: After CJI, BJPs Nishikant Dubey Targets Former CEC Over Waqf Act

A day after inflicting an uproar together with his remarks in opposition to the Chief Justice of India, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Sunday bought right into a disagreement and fired a salvo at S Y Quraishi, saying he was not an election commissioner however a “Muslim commissioner”.

Dubey’s remarks got here after Quraishi criticised the Waqf (Modification) Act, dubbing it a “sinister and evil plan of the federal government to seize Muslim lands”. Quraishi is a former Chief Election Commissioner of India.

आप चुनाव आयुक्त नहीं,मुस्लिम आयुक्त थे,झारखंड के संथालपरगना में बांग्लादेशी घुसपैठिया को वोटर सबसे ज़्यादा आपके कार्यकाल में ही बनाया गया ।पैगंबर मुहम्मद साहब का इस्लाम भारत में 712 में आया,उसके पहले तो यह ज़मीन हिंदुओं की या उस आस्था से जुड़ी आदिवासी,जैन या बौद्ध धर्मावलंबी की… https://t.co/yf8uBjmoYN
— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) April 20, 2025

Dubey’s spiritual barb on the former CEC got here a day after his vitriolic assault on the Supreme Courtroom and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, blaming him for “spiritual wars” in India, pressured the BJP to reject his criticism and distance itself from the controversial remarks.

Quraishi had alleged on X on April 17, “Wakf Act is undoubtedly a blatantly sinister evil plan of the govt. to seize Muslim lands. I am certain SC will name it out. Misinformation by the mischievous propaganda machine has accomplished its job effectively.”

The BJP MP responded to the previous ECI chief’s remarks in a publish on X, claiming that the utmost variety of Bangladeshi infiltrators had been made voters in Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand throughout his tenure because the ballot physique chief.

“You weren’t an election commissioner, you had been a Muslim commissioner. The utmost variety of Bangladeshi infiltrators had been made voters in Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand throughout your tenure,” Dubey stated on Sunday. “Prophet Muhammad’s Islam got here to India in 712. This land (Waqf) earlier than that belonged to Hindus or tribals, Jains or Buddhists related to that religion,” he added.

The BJP chief stated that his village, Vikramshila, was burnt down by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1189 and that the Vikramshila College gave the world its “first vice chancellor” in Atish Dipankar. “Unite this nation, learn historical past. Pakistan was created by dividing it. There might be no partition now,” he additional acknowledged. Dubey is a fourth-term Lok Sabha MP from Godda in Jharkhand. Quraishi served as India’s seventeenth Chief Election Commissioner from July 30, 2010, to June 10, 2012.