Justice Dash: Why not? If a person has good qualities and has good understanding of everything and has worked in the society at the ground level, then what is wrong in becoming a judge? Being a member of RSS should not affect recruitment. There are so many left-inclined judges or judges supporting the ideology of the Congress party. But they hide their identities. I had the courage to say that I have been an active member of the RSS because I have done nothing wrong. I have disassociated myself from RSS for around 35 years. As taught by the RSS, I was in the field which I entered without bias.
As far as decision-making is concerned, you can ask advocates from Odisha or Calcutta how I dealt with political cases. That (affiliations will affect decision making) is a false narrative against me or anyone. The first principle of the jurisprudence is that a judge must be a gentleman, who must have the courage to speak the right thing at the right time. People have questioned why I did not say this (RSS membership) earlier but to be honest, during my recruitment, in the application form, there was no column for the candidate to mention their affiliations.
I was part of the judiciary and I worked with judicial discipline.
Political affiliation will never affect one’s work. I have given relief to leaders or even persons belonging to the Trinamool Congress, the Congress party and even leftist parties. I never thought that they are my enemy just because they are from a party opposite to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which is closely affiliated with the RSS. Anyone who has come to my court, I have treated them as a litigant. I never thought them to be some opponents etc. When I sit on a judge’s chair, I am completely unbiased.
Source: Barandbench
