Political temperature has risen… Why so much commotion over the meeting between Chief Justice and PM Modi?

New Delhi: A controversy has started over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s participation in the Ganpati Puja ceremony at Chief Justice DY Chandrachud’s house. In a video related to this ceremony on Wednesday, Chandrachud and his/her wife Kalpana Das are seen welcoming PM Modi at their home. PM Modi also performs Bappa’s aarti here. Many opposition leaders as well as some Supreme Court lawyers have reacted sharply to Modi’s participation in the puja at the Chief Justice’s house. BJP has also retaliated to the opposition’s questions. Amidst this entire controversy, it is also important to know that PM Modi himself posted a picture of him/her performing aarti at the CJI’s residence. In such a situation, the question is whether these two cannot meet.What is the objection to
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut said that Ganpati festival is being celebrated and people visit each other’s houses… I do not know whether the Prime Minister has visited anyone’s house or not. he/she said that Ganpati festival is being celebrated at many places in Delhi and also at Maharashtra Sadan. he/she said, however, the Prime Minister visited the residence of the Chief Justice. They performed aarti together. We feel that if the custodian of the Constitution meets political leaders, then people will be suspicious.
Senior advocate Indira Jaising in a post on X said that the Chief Justice of India has compromised the principle of separation of powers between the executive and the judiciary. She said all faith in the independence of the Chief Justice has been lost. She said the SCBA (Supreme Court Bar Association) should publicly condemn the compromise of the CJI’s independence from the executive.

BJP retaliated
BJP national general secretary (organisation) B L Santosh said left-liberals have started crying foul over PM attending the event at CJI’s residence but it was not mingling (with people) but pure Ganpati puja. In a post, B L Santosh wrote “Yesterday’s puja and aarti disturbed the sleep, morning walk and tea-breakfast of many people across the country.” Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha member Milind Deora also hit out at critics and said when the verdicts are in their favour the opposition praises the credibility of the Supreme Court but when things don’t go their way they easily claim that the judiciary has been compromised.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra expressed surprise that some people are trying to do politics even when the Prime Minister is participating in a religious event at the CJI’s residence. he/she asked that when former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh used to organize Iftar parties, did the Chief Justice not attend them? he/she said, when the Chief Justice and the Prime Minister can sit together in an Iftar party, can chat, when both of them can sit at one table and talk… that is also a festival, this is also a festival. Why is there this difference between the two festivals?

have met before
Prime Minister Modi and the Chief Justice have met earlier in several official functions such as the Constitution Day celebrations two years ago, the International Conference of Lawyers in September 2023 and in an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Supreme Court in August. Now the question is whether two important organs of democracy cannot meet in a social or religious event. Does just one meeting raise many questions? To what extent is it right to question the decision of the Supreme Court or to look at it through the prism of politics? This is the same opposition which in recent months created a ruckus and attacked the government over the decision given by the Supreme Court led by CJI Chandrachud against the government. In a historic decision in February this year, a five-judge bench headed by CJI Chandrachud abolished the electoral bond scheme of the Modi government. This was a big decision before the Lok Sabha elections. The way statements are coming from both the ruling party and the opposition on this entire issue, politics is now visible more in it.