Nishikant Dubey is escalating controversy by targeting the former Quraishi over the WAQF Act, labs him 'Muslim commissioner' | Today news

BJP parliamentary member Nishikant Dubey, who was already involved in controversy following his recent remarks against the Chief Justice of India, further increased the tension on Sunday by starting a sharp attack on former chief election commissioner, his Quraishi. Dubey accused Quraishi of not acting as an impartial election commissioner, but as a ‘Muslim commissioner’, and responding to the strong condemnation of Quraishi of the WAQF (Amendment Act). Quraishi described the act as a ‘sinister and evil plan’ by the government aimed at grabbing Muslim countries. His Quraishi, who served as India’s chief election commissioner from 2010 to 2012, took to the social media platform X on April 17 to argue that the WAQF law was a blatant attempt to apply Muslim properties. He expressed the confidence that the Supreme Court would intervene to call out the government’s actions. In retaliation, Dubey claimed that the highest number of Bangladeshi -infiltragers during the tenure of Koraishi as voters in Santhal Pargana, a region in Jharkhand, was registered which included Dubey’s own parliamentary constituency of Godda. Dubey further argued that the countries now ruled under the Waqf Act originally belonged to Hindus, tribes, Jains or Buddhists before the arrival of Islam in India in 712 AD. He called up historical grievances and reminiscent of the destruction of Vikramshila University by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1189, and emphasized the meaning of the university by noting that it produced the world’s ‘first vice -chancellor’, atist Dipankar. In a broader attraction, Dubey requested national unity and a collective understanding of history, warning against further division. He noted: ‘Pakistan was created by sharing it. There will now be no division, ‘indicating its opposition to any future fragmentation of India. These remarks come shortly after the BJP publicly distanced Dubey’s earlier vitriolic remarks against the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who has already elicited a major political controversy. First Published: 20 Apr 2025, 09:51 PM IST