New Delhi, April 20:<\/p>\n
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has triggered a political storm with a barrage of controversial statements targeting former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, the Supreme Court, and the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. His remarks have drawn sharp condemnation from opposition parties and prompted the BJP to issue a public distancing from his views.<\/p>\n
Dubey, who represents Godda in Jharkhand in his fourth term as a Lok Sabha MP, lashed out at Quraishi on Sunday, calling him a \u201cMuslim commissioner\u201d rather than an \u201celection commissioner.\u201d The comments followed Quraishi\u2019s April 17 post on X, in which the former CEC described the Waqf Amendment Act as a \u201cblatantly sinister evil plan of the government to grab Muslim lands.\u201d Quraishi expressed hope that the Supreme Court would strike it down.<\/p>\n
In response, Dubey accused Quraishi of communal bias during his tenure as CEC, claiming he facilitated the inclusion of Bangladeshi infiltrators in the voter rolls in Jharkhand\u2019s Santhal Pargana region.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were not an election commissioner, you were a Muslim commissioner,\u201d Dubey said. He further stated, \u201cProphet Muhammad’s Islam came to India in 712. This land (Waqf), before that, belonged to Hindus or tribals, Jains or Buddhists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Citing history, Dubey referred to his own village, Vikramshila, claiming it was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1189, and added that the ancient Vikramshila University gave the world its first vice-chancellor in Atish Dipankar.<\/p>\n
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Attacks on Judiciary and Supreme Court<\/strong><\/p>\n Dubey’s criticism wasn\u2019t limited to Quraishi. In a separate tirade, he accused the Supreme Court of \u201cinciting religious wars\u201d and questioned its authority, saying, \u201cIf the Supreme Court is making laws, then there is no need for Parliament.\u201d He also expressed discontent with previous court rulings on issues such as the decriminalisation of homosexuality and religious matters, asserting, \u201cThe Supreme Court wants to push the country towards anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n Citing Article 368 of the Constitution, Dubey argued that law-making is solely the domain of Parliament and accused the judiciary of overstepping its role by issuing time-bound directives to the President and Governors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Opposition Hits Back, BJP Issues Clarification<\/strong><\/p>\n Opposition parties including the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) denounced Dubey\u2019s remarks as an assault on judicial independence and an attempt to stoke communal tensions.<\/p>\n Facing mounting backlash, the BJP leadership was quick to clarify that Dubey\u2019s statements reflected his personal opinions, not the party\u2019s stance. BJP national president JP Nadda reiterated the party\u2019s respect for the judiciary, calling it an \u201cinseparable part of democracy,\u201d and confirmed that Dubey had been advised not to make such statements in the future.<\/p>\n The controversy comes at a time when the Supreme Court is hearing multiple petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025. The politically sensitive nature of the issue and Dubey’s remarks have added fuel to the ongoing debate surrounding the law and communal representation in governance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Delhi, April 20: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey has triggered a political storm with a barrage of controversial statements targeting former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi, the Supreme Court, and … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-inn","category-national","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}