New Delhi: Amid a growing confrontation between the executive and the judiciary set off by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar’s denouncement of the Supreme Court, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday said that Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna was responsible for “all civil wars in the country”, and the Supreme Court of India was “responsible for religious wars”.Another BJP MP, Dinesh Sharma, too chimed in and said that no one can give directions to the president, who had already given her assent to the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.Hours later, BJP president and Union minister J.P. Nadda sought to distance the party from their remarks and said that it “has nothing to do” with such statements on the judiciary and the CJI.In a statement late on Saturday (April 19), Nadda said that the “BJP neither agrees with such statements nor does it ever support such statements” and said that he had instructed them and everyone else to not make such remarks.However, Nadda did not say whether any action will be taken against the MPs for their remarks.Nadda’s statement came hours after Dubey in a post on X had said: “If the Supreme Court makes the law then the Parliament House should be closed.”Hours later Dubey reposted his statement to ANI, in which he launched a strong attack on the judiciary and said:“Article 141 states that laws that are made by us [in parliament] … it is to be held from the lower court to the Supreme Court. Article 368 states that only the parliament has the authority to make laws in this country. The Supreme Court has the right to interpret the law. But now the Supreme Court is saying that the president should decide what to do within three months, and the governor should decide what to do within three months.”Dubey’s remarks come just two days after Vice President Dhankhar’s denouncement of the judiciary.Dhankhar on Thursday termed Article 142, which gives powers to the Supreme Court to pass necessary orders in the interests of justice, a “nuclear missile against democratic forces”, after the apex court in a landmark judgement set a deadline for the president to decide on Bills referred 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.Dubey also accused the Supreme Court of crossing its limits and alleged that it was “solely responsible for inciting religious wars in the country”.“When the issue of the Ram temple arises, you [Supreme Court] say ‘show papers’, when the issue of Krishna Janmabhoomi comes up in Mathura, you say ‘show papers’; when it comes to the Gyanvapi Mosque, you will again say ‘show papers’. But when it comes to the mosques built after the arrival of the Mughals, you say there are no documents to show. The Supreme Court is solely responsible for inciting religious wars in the country,” he said.“The Supreme Court is crossing its limits. The Supreme Court’s responsibility is to interpret laws. And if it cannot do so and for everything we have to go to [the] Supreme Court, then there is no point in having parliament or state assemblies and [they] should be shut down.”Dubey’s remarks come as the Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025.On Thursday, the court gave seven days’ time to the Union government to file its reply, provided no non-Muslims are are appointed to state waqf boards and the Central Waqf Council, and that no waqf properties will be denotified until the next date of hearing, scheduled for May 5.Justice Khanna told solicitor general Tushar Mehta during the hearing that while there were some positives to the Waqf (Amendment) Act, the status quo cannot be disturbed.Apart from Dubey, another BJP MP, Dinesh Sharma, had also mounted an attack on the Supreme Court on Saturday.“There is an apprehension among the public that when B.R. Ambedkar wrote the constitution, the rights of the legislative and judiciary were clearly written. According to the Constitution of India, the legislature can make laws and the monitoring of these laws will be done by the constitution. The legislature’s work was done in the Waqf Bill. No one can direct the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha according to the constitution. The president has given [her] assent. No one can give directions to the president,” he said.Late on Saturday, Nadda in a statement on X sought to distance the BJP from the statements made by its parliamentarians and said that he had instructed them and everyone else to not make such statements against the judiciary.“The BJP has nothing to do with the statements made by MPs Nishikant Dubey and Dinesh Sharma on the judiciary and the chief justice of the country,” Nadda said in a statement on X.“These are their personal statements, but the BJP neither agrees with such statements nor does it ever support such statements. The BJP completely rejects these statements. The BJP has always respected the judiciary and gladly accepted its orders and suggestions, because as a party we believe that all the courts of the country, including the Supreme Court, are an integral part of our democracy and are the strong pillar of the protection of the constitution. I have instructed both of them and everyone else not to make such statements.”