Wednesday 22 April 2015

'Bombay High Court' under Narendra Modi's communal paintbrush

Topic 96:

BJP’s latest communal attack, they want to re-christen the name of ‘Hon. Bombay High Court’ and prestigious ‘Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-B)’ to ‘Mumbai High Court’ and ‘Indian Institute of Technology- Mumbai (IIT-M)’ respectively, actually, BJP would someday even re-christen the word ‘re-christen’ to some Sanskrit word or ban and penalise its usage because it is an English word and doesn’t promote ‘Hindutva’ ideology (Hindutva: A radical Hindu ideology). ‘Bombay’ was re-christened to ‘Mumbai’, during their previous tenure to promote ‘Hindutva’ because ‘Mumbai’ is a Hindu goddess.


Indian Judiciary is an independent body and doesn’t come under the power of Union or States’ government, it consist of Hon. Supreme Court at apex subordinated by Hon. High Courts i.e. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Delhi, Allahabad etc. High courts do cover several states in their jurisdiction and are not limited up to a state. Since Indian states are organised on basis of languages, dominant ideologies in states should not be considered in judicial administration.

It was British government which developed the modern judiciary even before Indian Independence, this BJP & its allies who profess ‘Hindutva’ have done nothing for the cause of judiciary. They have no rights whatsoever to interfere in judicial system including judicial bodies. Neither BJP politicians nor their communal racist PM Narendra Modi ever did anything in their lives for the cause of judicial system, never made provisions to speed up judicial working, nor set up any new High Courts or likewise. Their only motto is to usurp other’s good works to their own credits, if these people are men of worth why don’t they set up new courts and name the court, they just continue to rename British structures to promote their venomous communal politics.

The constitution of India establishes the judicial system as an independent body; Narendra Modi’s government is a communal and racist government. BJP cabinet is continuously worried about how courts will react to their communal tactics and pogrom. They know courts are independent body and they can’t subdue judicial bodies. Thus, in a feat to show that they have the final say even over courts BJP now wants to re-christen the names of courts which were actually set by British prior to independence. It is just a gimmick that too to give a message that courts are not independent bodies but are under jurisdiction of their power, re-christening Hon. Bombay High Court to Mumbai High Court (Mumbai is a Hindu goddess) will surely give a message that India is not a secular country anymore but a ‘Hindu Rashtra/ Nation’ and that courts are sub-ordinate body of Executive government. It will open the doors for government to meddle with judicial system.

India is a Sovereign Country, but sovereignty doesn’t authorize one to play with history, culture and truth. We must at all cost recognise positive aspects of British government in India i.e. the Judiciary, Railways, Postal body, Legislature, Executive, Educational reforms, Colleges, Universities, Hospitals etc. Since, BJP professes ‘Hindutva’ it wants to destroy all British relics in India when they themselves are not worthy to set up any such agency, their core moral is theft. All British relics are now transformed in such a manner that they promote ‘Hindutva’ by changing names of each and everything in every nook and corner.

It was British who developed Bombay when it was nothing but a group of island, they set up docks, they set up navy, they set up industries, they set up railways, they electrified the city, they set up bus-tram transport, they set up Hospitals, they set up educational institutes, they set up gardens, they set up markets, they set up judiciary, they made marvellous architectures, they set up infra-structure because of which today Bombay is an international city, Bombay has an unbreakable link with British culture and thought. Thus any effort to wipe British relics and impose ‘Hindutva’ is playing with history, culture and truth in name of sovereignty. If these BJP politicians have guts they can establish a city and transform it to such a level that it challenges position of Bombay, this is impossible for them. Thus they turn to theft, theft of culture, history and truth by re-christenisation.

British government, The Common Wealth and Indian intellectuals should raise the issue on national and international level, and if necessary International bodies should take it seriously and stop all funds in name of heritage, because these people bring funds from international forum in name of preserving heritage and then use it against the very cause and actually wipe the heritage, over to that they use the funds to promote communal ‘Hindutva’.

The Honourable Supreme Court of India, hopefully, would take the issue seriously, since its although a mere re-christening it would give a wrong message to general people that executive government has power over judicial bodies. Moreover, Hon. Bombay High Court has jurisdiction not just over Bombay (Mumbai) but all over Maharashtra, Goa, NTs of Dadra-Nagar Haveli and Daman-Diu as well! Thus, why doesn’t Sadananda Gowda want to re-christen it to ‘Maharashtra and Goa High Court’, why specifically to ‘Mumbai High Court’? I along with many others pray to Hon. Supreme Court of India to sternly prevent Narendra Modi’s government from ‘Saffronising’ the outer decorum of Indian Judiciary, it is still so sorry to watch that gate of Bombay High Court has it written over it as just High Court (common noun)and not properly as ‘Bombay High Court’.


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