{"id":305955,"date":"2025-10-09T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=305955"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:28:14","slug":"pm-says-attack-on-cji-angered-every-indian-hindutva-brigade-hails-attacker-as-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/pm-says-attack-on-cji-angered-every-indian-hindutva-brigade-hails-attacker-as-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says attack on CJI ‘angered every Indian’, Hindutva brigade hails attacker as a hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone on record condemning the attack on Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai, the Right-wing social media brigade, which amplifies pro-BJP propaganda round the year, has found a new hero in Rakesh Kishore, the 71-year-old advocate who hurled a shoe<\/a> at Gavai in his court on October 6.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kishore, who has now been suspended by the Bar Council of India, has given several interviews in the 72 hours or so since the incident, where he has made it clear that he does not repent his act. On Monday, while being escorted out of the court room by security personnel, he had been heard saying, \u201c<\/span>sanatan dharma ka apmaan, nahi sahega Hindustan\u201d. <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>India won’t tolerate insult to Sanatan Dharma). <\/span>This was also reportedly found written in a chit in his possession.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kishore has also made it clear to the media that his attempted assault on the CJI was in response to the latter’s \u201cGo and ask the deity\u201d remark while dismissing a plea seeking directions to restore a damaged 7-foot idol of Hindu deity Vishnu in a temple in the Khajuraho complex on September 16.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PM Condemns, Right Wing Celebrates<\/h4>\n

In an X-post shared around 10 hours after the incident, PM Modi condemned the act and said it had angered every Indian. The Right-wing social media influencers, the BJP’s unofficial IT cell one might call them, were certainly not among them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spoke to Chief Justice of India, Justice BR Gavai Ji. The attack on him earlier today in the Supreme Court premises has angered every Indian. There is no place for such reprehensible acts in our society. It is utterly condemnable.<\/p>\n

I appreciated the calm displayed by Justice\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Long before the Prime Minister shared his thoughts on the attack on the CJI on X, the Hindutva brigade started celebrating the ‘bravado’ of Rakesh Kishore in upholding ‘Sanatan Dharma’. In the process, they also mounted a concerted attack on CJI Gavai. Many of the posts alluded to his caste identity, that of a Dalit<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leading the charge for the Right wing was YouTuber Ajeet Bharti, who peddles communal propaganda and disinformation<\/a> on a regular basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an X post, Bharti said t<\/span>his was just the beginning. “The same fate will befall such degenerate, anti-Hindu, and cowardly judges on the streets if they express their venomous desires, demeaning Hindus, beyond what is written in their orders,\u201d he wrote in Hindi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The post has now been deleted. A screenshot of the same can be seen below, and an archive of the post can be found here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ajeet Bharti also shared a video clip from his podcast on X, which has garnered over 1.2 million viewership and 13,000 reshares. The video is filled with casteist slurs and innuendos reflecting deep prejudice and offensive stereotyping of Dalits. In the video, Bharti repeatedly mocks CJI Gavai’s Dalit identity by referring to the colour blue and undermining it, using it as a slur. <\/span>He goes even further to deride Gavai\u2019s lived experiences, ridiculing his background with references to ‘life in the slums’. In the caption, he calls the CJI a “lousy, undeserving judge”. <\/span>(Archive<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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‘\u0917\u0935\u0908 \u091c\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u091c\u0942\u0924\u0947’<\/p>\n

PS: \u091c\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0939\u0947\u0902 \u0932\u0917\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u093f \u0924\u0941\u092e\u094d\u0939\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u0917\u0948\u0902\u0917 \u0938\u0947 \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u0921\u0930\u0924\u093e \u0939\u0942\u0901, \u0924\u094b \u0906\u091c \u0915\u093e \u0932\u093e\u0907\u0935 \u0905\u0935\u0936\u094d\u092f \u0926\u0947\u0916\u0928\u093e! \u0917\u0935\u0908 \u090f\u0915 \u0918\u091f\u093f\u092f\u093e, \u0905\u0902\u0921\u093f\u091c\u0930\u094d\u0935\u093f\u0902\u0917 \u091c\u091c \u0939\u0948 \u0914\u0930 \u0909\u0938 \u092a\u0930 \u0915\u0902\u091f\u0947\u092e\u094d\u092a\u094d\u091f \u0915\u093e \u0915\u0947\u0938 \u091a\u0932\u0928\u093e \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f\u0964 pic.twitter.com\/fxbIhcEX9h<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ajeet Bharti (@ajeetbharti) October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a telling display of caste prejudice, an X user named Kikki Singh shared an AI-generated video where <\/span>CJI Gavai is depicted as having blue skin colour with an earthen pot slung around his shoulder. In the clip, he is being slapped in the face with a shoe. In the X bio, this user identifies herself as a ‘Sanatani Lover’.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the caption, the user justified Rakesh Kishore’s act as a befitting answer to the Supreme Court for \u201ctoying with the sentiments of Hindus\u201d. (Archive<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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This video is a straightforward depiction of caste-based humiliation endured by Dalits in the past. The earthen pot hung around the neck refers to the practice prevalent in Pune<\/a> (then Poona) among other places where the people belonging to lower castes were required to carry such a pot whenever they went for holding their spit, lest <\/span>it defile the ground on which the upper-caste would tread. The blue colour, too, is infused with symbolism — representing Ambedkarite identity and Dalit resistance. For Dalits, blue represented the vastness and inclusivity of the sky, and stands as a powerful emblem of pride and resistance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n