Amid the listening to of the Waqf (Modification) Act within the Supreme Court docket, Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey stated on Saturday that if the judiciary is to make legal guidelines, then there isn’t any want for the Parliament to exist. The highest court docket is listening to petitions difficult the constitutional validity of the amended Waqf Act, handed by each homes of the Parliament.
“If the Supreme Court docket makes the regulation then the Parliament Home must be closed,” posted Dubey on X.
क़ानून यदि सुप्रीम कोर्ट ही बनाएगा तो संसद भवन बंद कर देना चाहिये
— Dr Nishikant Dubey (@nishikant_dubey) April 19, 2025
Later, Dubey additionally stated that the Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna, is answerable for all of the civil wars occurring on this nation. He additional added that Supreme Court docket goes past its restrict and if one has to go to the Supreme Court docket for every little thing, then Parliament and State Meeting must be shut.
#WATCH | Delhi: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey says “Chief Justice of India, Sanjiv Khanna is answerable for all of the civil wars occurring on this nation” https://t.co/EqRdbjJqIE pic.twitter.com/LqEfuLWlSr
— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2025
Congress Calls Remark ‘Defamatory’
Responding to the remark of BJP chief, Congress chief Manickam Tagore termed it “defamatory,” and stated that his assault on the highest court docket is “not acceptable.”
“This is a defamatory assertion in opposition to the Supreme Court docket. Nishikant Dubey is an individual who repeatedly demolishes all different establishments. Now, he has attacked the Supreme Court docket. I hope that the Supreme Court docket judges will take this into discover, as he’s not talking in Parliament however exterior it. His assault on the Supreme Court docket shouldn’t be acceptable,” Tagore instructed ANI.
Congress MP Imran Masood stated that the reported assertion made by the BJP chief is “unlucky.”
“The sort of statements which might be coming in opposition to the Supreme Court docket are very unlucky…This shouldn’t be the primary time that the Supreme Court docket has given a choice in opposition to the complete majority authorities…This frustration is meaningless,” Masood stated.
The Supreme Court docket has granted every week’s time to the Centre to file a preliminary response to the pleas difficult the validity of the contentious Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025, and posted the matter on Could 5. The bench has additionally determined to listen to solely 5 of the whole variety of pleas earlier than it and titled the case: In Re: Waqf (Modification) Act, 2025.
About 72 petitions, together with these by AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Muslim Private Legislation Board (AIMPLB), Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Anwar Basha former chairman Karnataka State Board of AUQAF represented by advocate Tariq Ahmed, Congress MPs Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammad Jawed, had been filed in opposition to the regulation.
Senior counsel, together with Kapil Sibal, Abhishek Singhvi, Huzefa Ahmadi seem for the petitioners within the case. Whereas appointing three attorneys because the nodal counsel on Thursday, the bench requested the advocates to determine amongst themselves who was going to argue. The petitioners had been allowed to file their rejoinders to the Centre’s reply inside 5 days of the service of the federal government’s response.
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