PM’s Scathing Tweet On Congress After 600 Lawyers Write To Chief Justice
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a strong attack on the Congress party today after hundreds of lawyers and some bar associations across the country wrote to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, expressing concerns over attempts to undermine the judiciary’s integrity using political and professional pressure.
“To browbeat and bully others is vintage Congress culture. Five decades ago, they itself had called for a ‘committed judiciary’ – they shamelessly want commitment from others for their selfish interests, but desist from any commitment towards the nation,” PM Modi said in a post on the microblogging website X.
“No wonder, 140 crore Indians are rejecting them,” PM Modi said.
Union Minister and Arunachal West candidate Kiren Rijiju said sane voices are openly coming out now, referring to the letter by the lawyers.
“These Congress people coined the concept of committed judiciary and suspended Indian Constitution. The Congress and leftists want courts and constitutional authorities to serve them or else they immediately start attacking the very institutions,” Mr Rijiju said.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in a statement said it is not proper form for the Prime Minister to pass comments on the judiciary. “However, as you consider India’s institutions to be your personal property, I have some questions for you. Why did four senior-most Supreme Court judges hold an unprecedented press conference and warn against ‘destruction of democracy’ by your regime? Why was one of the judges nominated by your government to the Rajya Sabha…” Mr Kharge said in the statement.
Yesterday, the All Manipur Bar Association had also written to Chief Justice DY Chandrachud highlighting the need to speak out against “underhanded attacks” on the judiciary. The bar association in the letter had said it was extremely concerned about recent trends where vested interest groups were trying to defame the courts with “frivolous logic” and “stale political agendas”.