Nishikant Dubey is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) from Godda, Jharkhand. He regularly makes controversial statements on the Supreme Court of India’s judgements and its handling of issues like religious disputes, the Waqf (Amendment) Act and the decriminalization of homosexuality.

In April 2025, Dubey faced criticism from the Supreme Court after he accused it of arrogating to itself Parliament’s legislative powers in relation to a stay on implementing some of the contentious provisions of the Waqf (Amendment) Act. The Act seeks to include non-Muslims and Muslim women in Waqf (charitable endowment) boards and limit their power to declare property as Waqf. 

“Which law says that the President has to take a decision within three months? This means you want to take this country towards anarchy…Supreme Court is responsible for inciting religious wars in the country. The Supreme Court is going beyond its limits. If one has to go to the Supreme Court for everything, then Parliament and State Assembly should be shut,” Dubey said.

In the same month, Dubey targeted former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi, labelling him a “Muslim commissioner,” when Quraishi criticized the Act on X, calling it “…A blatantly sinister evil plan of the govt to grab Muslim lands.” Dubey also accused Quraishi of facilitating Bangladeshi infiltrators’ voter registration in Jharkhand.

In September 2025, Dubey withdrew a case filed in 2018, in relation to the mob lynching of 2 Muslim men, after an investigation found that a Hindu man had posed as a Muslim to frame some members of the minority community. At the time of the incident, Dubey had supported the four men arrested in relation to the lynching saying they had been unfairly targeted. “The entire village was involved in the beating…Why are these four people being singled out just because their cattle was stolen?”

In September 2024, Dubey, part of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) reviewing the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, called for an investigation into the 12.5 million emails and 75,000 letters it received as public feedback, stating there was possible involvement of foreign forces like Pakistan’s ISI and China, while another member called it “email Jihad”, a bogus claim propagated by right-wing groups.

Dubey regularly attacks the Congress on his social media and promotes various Sangh outfits such as the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a right-wing student organization, in his posts.