• By Shibra Siddiqui
  • Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:37 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND
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Nishikant Debey, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Member of Parliament attacked former Chief Election commissioner SY Quraishi on Sunday and called him ‘Muslim Commissioner’ rather than election commissioner after the latter criticised Waqf Amendment Act. 

Dubey’s comment came days after former Chief Election Commissioner called Waqf amendment act ‘a sinister and an evil plan of the government to grab Muslim lands.”

Quraishi, who previously served as the CEC of India, had posted on X on April 17. "Wakf Act is undoubtedly a blatantly sinister evil plan of the govt to grab Muslim lands. I'm sure SC will call it out. Misinformation by the mischievous propaganda machine has done its job well."

In response, Dubey accused Quraishi of communal bias during his tenure. He said, “You were not an election commissioner, you were a Muslim commissioner. The maximum number of Bangladeshi infiltrators were made voters in Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand during your tenure.”

He further said, "Unite this country, read history. Pakistan was created by dividing it. There will be no partition now."

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A earlier, Dubey stirred controversy with his comment targeting the Chief Justice of India and the Supreme Court. BJP MP attackecd top court saying Parliament and State Assemblies should be closed if court has to make laws. He also took a swipe at Chief Justice India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna, holding him responsible for "civil wars" in the country.

Additionally, a Supreme Court lawyer, representing one of the litigants in the Waqf Act case, has written to Attorney General R Venkatramani seeking consent to initiate contempt proceedings against BJP MP Nishikant Dubey

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