By Justice Markandey Katju, former judge, Indian Supreme Court By their ongoing agitation, the Indian farmers are not only fighting for their rights, they are also creating history by starting the process of the mighty historical united struggle for the transformation of India from an underdeveloped to a highly industrialised …
Read More »Announce the formation of a Farmers Commission immediately
By Justice Markandey Katju, former judge, Supreme Court of India The next meeting of the farmers’ representatives and the Central Govt Ministers will be held today, 5th December, at 2 p.m. in Vigyan Bhawan. In the meantime a meeting is being held at the Prime Minister’s residence between the PM …
Read More »Two forces at work in India: farmers agitation is uniting India while communal and casteist forces are dividing it
By Justice Markandey Katju, former judge, Supreme Court of India Two opposite forces are presently at work in India, one dividing or polarising the people on religious ( or caste ) lines, and the other uniting the people. A concrete example of the first can be seen from the recent …
Read More »Farmers protest: Justice Katju suggests a face-saving solution to Govt.
New Delhi, 01st December 2020. Justice Markandey Katju, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, has suggested a middle ground on the peasant movement. If the government accepts what Justice Katju has suggested, then perhaps it could possibly save its honour. And any violence during the peasant movement can also …
Read More »Justice katju is agreed with farmers but…
New Delhi, 30 November 2020. Former judge of the Supreme court of India Justice Markandey Katju has agreed with farmers that condition of the government for resumption of talks is not reasonable. Justice Katju wrote a post on his verified Facebook page in this regard. He wrote, “I agree with …
Read More »Justice Katju suspects middlemen and big farmers, are financing and supporting the farmers agitation
New Delhi, 30 November. Former judge of the Supreme court of India Justice Markandey Katju suspects that middlemen ( bichaulias ) and big farmers are financing and supporting the farmers’ agitation. Justice Katju wrote a post on his verified Facebook page, with a link of old news. The full text …
Read More »The farmers agitation: Negotiation is the way to the solution
By Justice Markandey Katju Farmers have marched from Punjab towards Delhi against the three farmers laws recently passed by the Indian Parliament, with the slogan ‘Dilli Chalo‘ ( march to Delhi ) and have reached the Delhi border, despite several impediments by the Haryana police. Farmers of some other states …
Read More »SATYAM BRUYAT : Muslims should introspect
By Justice Markandey Katju, former judge, Supreme Court of India There have been demonstrations against French President Macron in Mumbai, Bhopal, Aligarh, Hyderabad, Srinagar and other Indian cities. These fools who are demonstrating do not realise they are playing into the hands of those who wish to paint all Muslims …
Read More »The Future of Pakistan: Interesting times are coming
By Justice Markandey Katju, former Judge, Indian Supreme Court I had earlier written an article titled ‘Bas ho chuki namaz musalla uthaiye‘ which was published in nayadaur.tv. In that article I had mentioned that despite all the rallies and hue and cry created by the People’s Democratic Movement ( PDM …
Read More »Even elephant death must be communalised
By Justice Markandey Katju, former Judge, Supreme Court A pregnant elephant died in Kerala by eating a pineapple containing a firecracker, and immediately some politicians have jumped into the fray trying to communalise the issue, just as some people had tried to communalise the corona pandemic by blaming Tablighi Jamaat. …
Read More »We don’t need Tyranny of anyone in democracy: elected or ‘Un-elected’
In the last few weeks, we saw some hard-hitting ‘statements’ made by some big legal names. The Solicitor General of India, Mr Tushar Mehta made many allegations accusing some former judges, some high courts and senior lawyers for trying to ‘influence’ the court. It is the same gentleman who spoke …
Read More »‘Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar’s misbehavior is unpardonable’
I saw the YouTube video of Neo News, Pakistan in which Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar shamelessly abused Marvi Sirmed merely because she interrupted him and said ‘Mera jism meri marzi’. This infuriated him and he started uttering filthy expletives like ‘Tere jism par koi thookta nahi hai’ and ‘Tere jism mein hai …
Read More »Kejriwal Government Green Light to Prosecute Kanhaiya Kumar for Sedition is Bad in Law
The Supreme Court of India has already upheld the Brandenburg test for when speech is illegal. It is time now for the court to reiterate this principle via a constitution bench so that the right to free speech is not trampled upon. By Justice Markandey Katju I am no supporter …
Read More »CJI Gogoi was blot on judiciary, but why were the other justices mute like Bheeshma Pitamah, seeing the cheer haran of the Supreme Court?
Indians need answers to judiciary’s failures in Gogoi’s tenure By Justice Markandey Katju When former chief justice of India Dipak Misra misbehaved in allocating cases in the Supreme Court, four of the senior-most justices of the apex court, including Ranjan Gogoi, protested. These justices did so by holding an open …
Read More »Budget 2020 : ‘The poets Nirmala Sitharaman did not cite’, Justice katju points out
By Justice Markandey Katju (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India) The Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has displayed her fantastic erudition by quoting several poets—Kashmiri poet Dinananath Kaul Nadeem, Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, Sanskrit poet Kalidas, etc in her recent budget speech. However, I wish she had also quoted the following …
Read More »It is time for Indian institutions to stand up and act to protect democracy
A ‘journalist’ was ‘manhandled’ when reporting from Shaheen Bagh and then he said that he could have been ‘mob lynched’ there. Thankfully, he remembers the word otherwise they paid slaves had forgotten the terms and always blamed the victims. The new trend in India started with mob lynching was to …
Read More »Why a Modi govt. critic Retd. SC Judge, who is a strong supporter of India-Pak-Bangladesh reunion, called Pakistan a ‘Jaahil’ country
ndey Katju, Retired. Judge of the Supreme Court of India is Extremely critical of the divisive policies of the Modi government and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. He is also a strong supporter of India-Pak-Bangladesh reunion.
Read More »Justice Katju suggests for taking Indian citizenship to Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh; Modi-Shah will get upset
Justice Katju suggests for taking Indian citizenship to Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh; Modi-Shah will get upset..
Read More »Namgyal, Kanhaiya, Shehla, Umar Khalid will get angry with Katju’s comment
Justice Markandey Katju, a retired judge of the Supreme Court, described Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal as another phoney demagogue like JNU heroes Kanhaiya Kumar, Shehla Rashid and Omar Khalid.
Read More »After Partition, demolition of Babri Masjid was the greatest tragedy of India, which has just been sanctified !
#Ayodhyaverdict : Antidote of Justice Katju. After Partition, demolition of Babri Masjid was the greatest tragedy of India, which has just been sanctified !
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