New Delhi: A letter has been sent to attorney general R. Venkatramani seeking sanction for the initiation of contempt proceedings against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey for his “grossly scandalous” and “misleading” statements aimed at “lowering the dignity and authority” of the Supreme Court.The letter comes after Dubey on Saturday (April 19) said that Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna was responsible for “all civil wars in the country”, and the Supreme Court for “religious wars”.While BJP president and Union minister J.P. Nadda has said that his party “neither agrees with such statements nor does it ever support such statements”, he did not make any mention of whether any action will be taken against the four-term MP from Jharkhand’s Godda.In the letter seen by The Wire seeking contempt proceedings against Dubey, Supreme Court advocate on record Anas Tanwir said that Dubey had made “communally polarising remarks that directly cast aspersions on the impartiality” of the Supreme Court.“These remarks are not only factually incorrect but are also intended to scandalise the Hon’ble Supreme Court, erode public trust and incite communal distrust in judicial impartiality, all of which clearly fall within the meaning of criminal contempt as defined under Section 2(c)(i) of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971,” the letter said.Referring to Dubey’s remarks against Justice Khanna, the letter said that his statement was “deeply derogatory but also dangerously provocative”.“It recklessly attributes national unrest to the hon’ble chief justice, thus scandalising the highest judicial office in the country and attempting to provoke public distrust, outrage and possible unrest. Such an allegation devoid of any basis constitutes a grave attack on the integrity and independence of the judiciary and is an act deserving of urgent and exemplary legal scrutiny under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.”The letter further said that Dubey’s statement that Article 368 gives only parliament the authority to make laws in this country is “misleading and calculated to portray the judiciary as encroaching upon the powers of the legislature, whereas in reality the Supreme Court is fully empowered under Article 141 and 142 to issue binding directions to uphold constitutional mandates.”Dubey’s remarks come as the Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Tanwir, who has written to the attorney general, is representing one of the petitioners in the case.Just on Thursday, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar also denounced the judiciary, terming Article 142, which gives powers to the Supreme Court to pass necessary orders in the interests of justice, a “nuclear missile against democratic forces”.This, after the apex court in a landmark judgement set a deadline for the president to decide on Bills referred to her by governors of states and said that Tamil Nadu governor R.N. Ravi’s withholding of assent to over ten Bills and reserving them for the president’s assent was illegal.