SY Quraishi was not election commissioner but ‘Muslim commissioner’: Nishikant Dubey on Waqf Act criticism

New Delhi: After causing an uproar with his remarks against the Chief Justice of India, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey Sunday fired a salvo at SY Quraishi, saying he was not an election commissioner but a “Muslim commissioner”, after the latter criticised the Waqf (Amendment) Act as a “sinister and evil plan of the government to grab Muslim lands”.

Quraishi is a former Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Dubey’s religious barb at the former CEC came a day after his vitriolic attack on the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, blaming him for “religious wars” in India, forced the BJP to reject his criticism and distance itself from the controversial remarks.

Quraishi had alleged on X 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.”

The BJP MP chose to react Sunday.

Dubey 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.

“Prophet Muhammad’s Islam came to India in 712. This land (Waqf) before that belonged to Hindus or tribals, Jains or Buddhists associated with that faith.”

Dubey said his village Vikramshila was burnt down by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1189 and that the Vikramshila University gave the world its “first vice chancellor” in Atish Dipankar.

He added, “Unite this country, read history. Pakistan was created by dividing it. There will be no partition now.”

Dubey is a fourth-term Lok Sabha MP from Godda in Jharkhand.

PTI

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