Former Supreme Court Justice Markandeya Katju has once again created a controversy saying that ‘most of the politicians deserve to be shot’. Katju has been embroiled in a number of controversies. Recently he had invited sharp criticism for calling Mahatma Gandhi a British agent.
He also accuses media in diverting the attention of the people from real issues to trivialities like lives of film stars, cricket, astrology and said “media has descended to low levels”.
“I hate many things in India. I hate its massive poverty, unemployment, price rise, lack of healthcare and good education for the masses, malnourishment of 50% of its children, farmer suicides, discrimination against women, minorities, scheduled castes, etc. casteism, communalism, superstitions, politicians (most of whom deserve to be shot).
Pointing ‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark that ‘earlier people felt ashamed of being born in India but now feel proud to represent the country’, he said “he has committed crime by taking birth in India”. “But I never feel that I have committed some sin in being born in India”, he added.
“There was a time when people used to say we don’t know what sins we committed in our past life that we were born in Hindustan. Is this any country, is this any government…we will leave,” he had said in Hindi during his recent trip to three East Asian nations.
“Earlier, you felt ashamed of being born in Indian. Now you feel proud to represent the country. Indians abroad had all hoped for a change in government last year,” he added.