Chennai: Lok Sabha MPs led by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) Kanimozhi Karunanidhi submitted a petition to Speaker Om Birla Tuesday to take away Madras Excessive Court docket decide, Justice G.R. Swaminathan.

The INDIA bloc MPs questioned the conduct of the Madurai bench decide, elevating questions on “impartiality, transparency and secular functioning of the judiciary”.

Within the letter, the MPs urged the Home to go a movement for Justice Swaminathan’s impeachment, claiming his actions increase “critical questions”. The letter accused the decide of extending undue favour to Senior Advocate M. Sricharan Ranganathan in the midst of deciding instances, and of “exhibiting choice to advocates from a specific neighborhood”.

The petition alleged that Justice Swaminathan delivered judgments pushed by “specific political ideology”, and in a fashion inconsistent with the secular ideas of the Structure.

The impeachment plea comes towards the backdrop of Justice Swaminathan’s judgment permitting the lighting of the standard Karthigai Deepam lamp on the “Deepathoon” pillar of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple at Thirupparankundram hill, with the pillar positioned on a peak close to a dargah on the hill—a transfer that has raised objections from the general public in addition to the Madurai authorities. The administration ultimately refused to implement the order, citing law-and-order considerations, which led to violent protests by pro-Hindu teams within the space.

As many as 107 MPs from the INDIA bloc alliance, together with from the DMK, Congress and Trinamool Congress (TMC), have signed the impeachment movement. The letter was additionally despatched to the places of work of the President of India and the Chief Justice of India.

Bharatiya Janata Celebration Nationwide Secretary Dr Arvind Menon, in a put up on X, known as the plea “anti-Hindu bigotry.”

Disgrace on @arivalayam & the INDI alliance for stooping so low!

Bullying Justice Swaminathan with impeachment threats simply because he upheld Tamil traditions like Karthigai Deepam on Thiruparankundram hill ?

This isn’t politics, it’s anti-Hindu bigotry in disguise. pic.twitter.com/1Mgebt1Uk4

— Dr. Arvind Menon (@MenonArvindBJP) December 9, 2025

Reacting to the impeachment transfer on X, former BJP Tamil Nadu president Ok Annamalai, accused the INDIA bloc of “flaunting their anti-Hindu credentials like a badge of honour”.

(Edited by Insha Jalil Waziri)

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