The Congress on Monday questioned the Centre’s silence after four Supreme Court judges went public with their grievances against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra last week.

“Those who have immense oratorical powers and are verbose to the extreme on the most trivial of things” have remained silent on the matter, said Congress spokesperson and lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

“Whether there is a storm; whether the Supreme Court is a teacup and whether tea cup is solvent or not is to be decided by the Supreme Court. I do not think subjectivities or either storm or teacup are appropriate. What the government should be speaking on are the content of the issues underlying and that they are avoiding, escaping and clearly trying to hide behind the wall of silence,” Singhvi said.

Responding to the press conference by Anuj Loya, son of former CBI judge BH Loya maintaining that he doubts no one over the death of his father, Singhvi said an inquiry on a matter of public interest should not be dependent on th will of a family member.

“If a matter impinges in this manner as a vital organ of Indian democracy, and therefore, on democracy itself, then the demand for an enquiry is a demand by responsible stakeholders and is not dependent on whether family member wants it and family member does not want it,” he said.

He said the argument that there were attempts to politicise Loya’s death is false. “We are simply as a responsible stakeholder of Indian democracy, as a party, asking for enquiry and putting before you the absolute patent paradoxes and contradictions in the diverse statements,” he added.

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