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Meet Victoria Gowri, an advocate who was recommended to be a Judge at d Madras HC by the SC collegium led by CJI Chandrachud.

I found evidence of her bias & extreme views against India's #Muslims & #Christians

A thread on her utterances🧵
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Gowri's first known association with BJP started in 2010, as Kerala Mahila Morcha state in-charge. When Modi's govt came to power in 2014, she was appt a senior central govt counsel at Madras HC in 2015.

In 2017, a cabinet committee headed by Modi also appointed her as... 2/

...an independent director at Kamarajar Port Ltd in Chennai.

In 2020, Modi's govt appointed Gowri as the Assistant Solicitor General of India at Madras HC's Madurai Bench.

Pic: Gowri tying Rakhi to Modi on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. 3/

“As far as India is concerned, I would like to say Christian groups are more dangerous than Islamic groups. Both are equally dangerous in the context of conversion, especially Love Jihad.” Gowri is seen telling Bharat Marg, a right-wing magazine, in a 2018 video. 4/

Gowri shared her views on “love jihad”. “I don't mind a Hindu girl marrying a Muslim boy... But if I am not able to find my girl with him as his wife, and if I find my girl in the Syrian terrorist camp, I have objection (sic) and that is what I define as Love Jihad.” 5/

In an interview with Bharat Marg, she said-

“I was so shocked… we found it very awkward and ugly especially when the children danced the poses of Lord Nataraja to mean Jesus Christ,” said Gowri. “What is the connection between Jesus Christ and Lord Nataraja?” 6/

She also talked of how 'kirtans' were being "copied by Christians" for their songs, while also talking about a "conspiracy hatched in nexus with the leftist and DK people” (unclear what DK is, something to do with Dravidian). 7/

“So Christianity is more dangerous, like Islam as well”, Gowri concluded in the video.

In the 2018 video titled “More Threat to National Security & Peace? Jihad or Christian Missionary? Answers Victoria Gowri”, she talks of conversion. 8/

“This is the most nefarious activity of the roman catholic sect of Christianity”

“Christians have a meticulous, well-planned, educated way of alluring people in the name of peace, in the name of service, in the name of love”, Gowri said. 9/

“The list of Christian aggression is not ending. ‘Where there is a temple, there must be many Churches’ (sic) is their aggressive motto.”

“The problem of Christian (sic). If the Islamic terror (sic) is green terror, the Christian terror is white terror.”

Gowri is heard saying.

Gowri's views on the opposition parties could also reflect her biases. In a 2013 piece she wrote for Organiser, an RSS-affiliated magazine-

"The slow, steady & consistent invasion of our values & morals in this country by the continuous rule of pseudo-secularists..." 11/

"...in the name of secularism, in the name of globalization, in the name of global marketing, has made the constitutional promise of equality, a farce."

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Her recommendation by the collegium comes at a time when the tension between the collegium and govt is at an all-time high.

More importantly... 13/

...from the recently released collegium records, we do know that the govt and the collegium both look at political leanings and display of open biases that could have an impact on their integrity as a Judge. 14/

So how did a person, openly biased against India's minorities, receive a favourable recommendation from d collegium?
Persons are rejected for much less, as now known from Somasekhar Sundaresan and John Sathyan's cases where govt found they shared critical posts against Modi. 15/

One who spoke to this reporter said he was “puzzled” why the union government was criticising the collegium, “even though the collegium has ceded ground to the executive a long time ago”. 16/

Gowri is not the first lawyer close to the BJP to be appointed to the higher judiciary by the collegium.

The Jan 2023 appointment of Bombay High Court justice Neela Gokhale indicates this. 17/

KM Nataraj, Additional Solicitor General of India at the SC, has been “a key figure in getting right-wing ideology persons” appointed as judges in southern high courts.
Nataraj also served as the additional advocate general of Karnataka from 2009 to 2013 under the then BJP govt.

While the Collegium selectively made public its reasons for backing a gay advocate’s candidature for the first time, no reasons were given for its approval of an advocate with obvious bias against India’s minorities. 19/

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