Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan said the motion for impeachment of a Madras High Court judge that was moved in the Parliament by DMK MPs amounted to weaponisation of the Constitution and blatant political intimidation. “It was nothing but threatening the judiciary in the name of pseudo-secularism,” he noted.
He stated in a social media post that when a constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court delivered the Sabarimala judgment overturning a centuries-old, deeply cherished custom regarding entry into one of the most sacred Hindu sites and triggering massive social unrest and protests, no judge was impeached.
“Their ruling, which fundamentally altered a core religious practice, was met only with legal review petitions, not political motions for removal.”
Recently, when a former Chief Justice of India (CJI) publicly made a scornful comment: “Go and ask the deity itself to do something now. You say you are a staunch devotee of Lord Vishnu. So go and pray now,” he faced zero accountability.
The former CJI was neither asked to apologise nor was he put through an impeachment motion. In fact, when an advocate dared to abuse the former CJI, all political parties rushed to condemn the act, strongly defending the sanctity of the judge.
