Supreme Court ‘responsible for inciting religious wars’: BJP’s Nishikant Dubey

Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday said that the Supreme Court was responsible for “inciting religious wars” in the country, ANI reported.

“The Supreme Court is going beyond its limits…” Dubey was quoted as saying. “If one has to go to the Supreme Court for everything, then Parliament and state Assembly should be shut...”

Dubey cited the court’s decisions to decriminalise homosexuality in 2018 and the striking down of section 66(a) of the Information Technology Act in 2021.

The MP from Jharkhand’s Godda claimed that the court had decriminalised homosexuality despite “all [religious] communities considering it wrong”. He also claimed that section 66(a) of the IT Act was necessary to stop the misuse of online platforms to share objectionable content.

Dubey said: “When the issue of the Ram temple comes up, you [the Supreme Court] say ‘show documents’; when the issue of Krishna Janmabhoomi comes up in Mathura, you will say ‘show documents’; when it comes to the Gyanvapi mosque, you will again say ‘show documents’.”

“But when it comes to the mosques built after the arrival of the Mughals, you say there are no documents to show,” he added.

Dubey made the remark while answering a reporter’s question about his social media post on Saturday morning in which the BJP MP said that Parliament “should be closed if the Supreme Court makes the law”.

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