BJP president JP Nadda’s statement distancing his party from the remarks of two MPs crudely targeting the Chief Justice of India and the judiciary is welcome. But it is not enough. Because, recently, the BJP seems beset with a troubling contagion. It folds in party MPs, at least one party office-bearer and party-appointed high constitutional functionaries. The two colleagues who invited Nadda’s rebuke were four-time MP and chairman of a parliamentary committee, Nishikant Dubey, and Dinesh Sharma, also an MP. In language discourteous and lurching, Dubey held the CJI responsible for “all civil wars in the country” and criticised the Supreme Court — “kanoon yadi Supreme Court hi banayega toh sansad bhavan band kar dena chahiye (If SC makes the laws, Parliament should be shut down)”. Sharma endorsed Dubey’s rant: “Jan manas mein ek aashanka hoti hai (a suspicion arises in the minds of the people) … No one can challenge the........

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