New Delhi, April 21 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Pradeep Bhandari on Monday hit back at the Congress amid the ongoing controversy over Nishikant Dubey's recent remarks about the Supreme Court, saying that Congress has always disrespected the judiciary and has not supported judicial independence.

Speaking to ANI, Bhandari said, "The Congress party should answer the nation, as historically it has always disrespected the judges of the Supreme Court and judiciary. It is the same party that imposed the emergency, which moved a motion for the impeachment of Justice Dipak Misra, which personally targeted Justice Arun Mishra, which did not let the senior-most judge become the Chief Justice during the emergency...Congress party does no...