Following a letter by around 600 lawyers to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud about actions of a “vested interest group trying to pressure judiciary”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at the Congress party saying it is their “culture” to “browbeat and bully others”.
“To browbeat and bully others is vintage Congress culture. 5 decades ago itself they had called for a “committed judiciary” – they shamelessly want commitment from others for their selfish interests but desist from any commitment towards the nation,” the PM said in a post on X.
“No wonder 140 crore Indians are rejecting them,” he added.
In a letter to the CJI, around 600 lawyers alleged that the group is “is trying to pressure the judiciary, influence judicial process and defame…courts on the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas”.
“Their antics are vitiating the atmosphere of trust and harmony, which characterises the functioning of the judiciary. Their pressure tactics are most obvious in political cases, particularly those involving political figures accused of corruption” and “are damaging to our courts and threaten our democratic fabric”, the letter said.
The letter further added that the group “have also concocted an entire theory of ‘bench fixing’ – which is not just disrespectful and contemptuous” but “an attack on the honour and dignity of our courts” and “at times, it also leads to slanderous attacks and insinuations on respected judges”.
The signatories said, “The timing of their modus operandi also merits closer scrutiny- they do it at very strategic timings, when the nation is all set to head into elections”.