“Congress’ acts of corruption and its regimes thrive on a favourable institutional ecosystem, at the heart of which, lies the party’s relationship with the judiciary. It was 30 April 1976 and the newspapers in India had either turned silent on will or had been censored into almost silence.

So, one often had to rely on international newspapers to get an understanding of what was unfolding in the country. On that eventful day, the New York Times (NYT) in their editorial, saluted the efforts on an unlikely hero – a judge who NYT said deserved his own monument for upholding the constitution and the rule of law, even though it meant sacrificing his own career.

This Supreme Court judge in question was Justice H R Khanna and the case in question was ADM Jabalpur vs Shivkant Shukla. The memorial never came but Justice Khanna’s brave dissent laid bare the way in which the Indian National Congress manipulated and trampled upon the independence of the judiciary. And from the days of the Emergency to the present day, the Congress continues with its track record of impairing the independence of the courts.

So what are the tactics that the Congress has used in the past few decades to make the judiciary pliable to its interests? The party’s approach can be summed up in three points. 1. Make way for the people who are loyal to you and those who would continue to be loyal to make their way up to the highest position……”

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