Justice Deepak Gupta, former judge of the Supreme Court, has said that the government wants such women and men to sit in the court, who listen to them, do not criticize them and support everything at Hidayatullah National Law University 2nd B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture. Justice Deepak Gupta cited the example of Hitler to explain how the absolute majority was used to make sweeping changes in the constitution to take away the rights of the people.

Justice Deepak Gupta said that the people who drafted our constitution were not trapped in any vote bank politics. They had no communal thinking and no caste prejudice either. They only thought about the country. Justice Gupta said that we never contest elections on policy, we contest elections on vote bank politics. Elections are fought on communal, caste, religion, gifts. Have you ever heard a candidate talking about the rule of law or the collegium system or the basic structure of the Constitution before elections?

Talking about the role of the judiciary in a democracy, Justice Gupta said that when I was a judge, I used to memorize and repeat my oath every day during my morning walk. Did not remember any mantra or any lesson. When you sit on the seat of a judge, the Constitution of India is your Gita, Quran, Bible and Guru Granth Sahib.

Justice Deepak Gupta also responded to Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's remarks in which he had recently questioned the basic structure of the Constitution. Justice Gupta said that the Vice President said that he does not believe in the 'Basic Structure Doctrine'. He is free to express his views, I am not surprised. But the fundamental laws are eternal and cannot be taken away by anyone.

Speaking on the collegium controversy, Justice Deepak Gupta said that he himself is not a big fan of the collegium, but despite all the shortcomings, there is no alternative to it yet. Those who have seen Emergency will never want Emergency to come back. It is not that the government has no role in the appointment of judges. Sometimes the collegium accepts whatever the government says.