Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant | File Image The Congress' Keralam unit deleted a social media post asking Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant to "resign", triggering a sharp political confrontation with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday. The BJP accused the opposition party of threatening the head of the judiciary and insulting the Constitution. In the now-deleted post on X, the Congress' Keralam unit had written: "Dear Surya Kant, if law and order is not your domain, resign now. We will find your replacement who can handle it." The post was a response to a reported remark by the CJI that law and order was not his domain. The observation came amid security restrictions imposed in Delhi during protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. Reacting to the post, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said, "Anarchist Congress, who is hell-bent upon creating ruckus on the streets of the country, has stooped so low that is unprecedented in the political history of India... Today, another condemnable statement has come from Kerala Congress when, on their X post, they have used a dastardly statement saying that if law and order is your domain, then leave your post; we will make another arrangement." "This shows that a state unit of the Congress party, that too in the state of Kerala, in which they are having a coalition government with the Muslim League—how can they say that they can decide the new Chief Justice and that they want the resignation of the Chief Justice? Now the true face of the Muslim League, Maoist Congress, and their 'Dimagi Naxal' mindset has come in the open..." he said. BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari accused the Congress of threatening the CJI and said the post was an insult to the Constitution. He also alleged that the party believed the Gandhi family was above constitutional institutions. The political row unfolded as Congress-led INDIA bloc leaders approached the Supreme Court over alleged irregularities in the electoral process, including the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The petition names the Election Commission and its senior officials as respondents and is likely to be heard on Tuesday by a bench-led by Chief Justice Surya Kant. Apoorva Shukla is a journalist at Times Now, where she thrives on dissecting political developments both at home and abroad. A graduate of Delhi Univ... View More