Achi news desk-
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 Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, expressing concerns over attempts to undermine the integrity of the judiciary using political and professional. pressure.
The Prime Minister took to X (previously Twitter) and wrote, “Eviling and bullying others is an old Congress culture. 5 decades ago they themselves had called for a “committed judiciary” – they shamelessly want commitment from others to their selfish interests but refrain from any commitment towards the nation. No wonder 140 crore Indians reject them. “
Prime Minister Modi was referring to the time when Congress’s Indira Gandhi, in the 1970s, advocated a “committed judiciary”. The Congress government then replaced three judges to make CJI and repeated the same a few years later, attracting a lot of opposition from the legal community.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was responding to a letter to the Chief Justice of India from hundreds of lawyers, who pointed out what they described as a threat by the actions of a “certain interest group that seeks to undermine the integrity of the judiciary”.
Earlier in the day, over 600 lawyers from across India addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of India, expressing serious concerns about what they describe as political and professional pressure to influence judicial outcomes.
Union Minister and Arunachal West candidate Kiren Rijiju said that intelligent voices are coming out openly now, referring to the lawyers’ letter.
“These Congress people destroyed the concept of a dedicated judiciary and suspended the Constitution of India. The Congress and the leftists want courts and constitutional authorities to serve them or else they immediately start attacking the very institutions,” Rijiju said.
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