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At his retirement event at the Calcutta high court on Monday (May 20), Justice Chitta Ranjan Dash said he was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) since childhood.
Speaking at his farewell at the high court in the presence of the judges and members of the bar, Justice Dash said “Today, I must unfold my true self. I owe a lot to one organisation. I am there from my childhood till I attained my youth. I have learned to be courageous, upright, have equal view for others, and above all, the sense of patriotism and commitment to the work wherever you work. I must admit here that I was and I am a member of the RSS,” he said, according to Bar and Bench.
According to Justice Dash, he had distanced himself from the organisation for about 37 years because of his work in law.
“I have never used my membership of the organisation for any advancement of my career because it is against its principles…I treated everybody at par, be he a rich or poor person, be he a communist, or from the BJP, Congress or TMC. All are equal before me; I do not hold any bias for anyone or any particular political philosophy or mechanism,” he said.
Justice Dash is the second judge of the Calcutta high court to announce his political leanings in the recent past. Controversially, Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned from the court in March this year and immediately joined the BJP. He is now contesting the Lok Sabha election.
Born in 1962 in Odisha's Sonepur, Justice Dash graduated in law from the Madhu Sudan Law College in Cuttack in 1985.
Speaking at his farewell at the high court in the presence of the judges and members of the bar, Justice Dash said “Today, I must unfold my true self. I owe a lot to one organisation. I am there from my childhood till I attained my youth. I have learned to be courageous, upright, have equal view for others, and above all, the sense of patriotism and commitment to the work wherever you work. I must admit here that I was and I am a member of the RSS,” he said, according to Bar and Bench.
According to Justice Dash, he had distanced himself from the organisation for about 37 years because of his work in law.
“I have never used my membership of the organisation for any advancement of my career because it is against its principles…I treated everybody at par, be he a rich or poor person, be he a communist, or from the BJP, Congress or TMC. All are equal before me; I do not hold any bias for anyone or any particular political philosophy or mechanism,” he said.
Justice Dash is the second judge of the Calcutta high court to announce his political leanings in the recent past. Controversially, Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned from the court in March this year and immediately joined the BJP. He is now contesting the Lok Sabha election.
Born in 1962 in Odisha's Sonepur, Justice Dash graduated in law from the Madhu Sudan Law College in Cuttack in 1985.
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