Tripura questioning plea for probe into violence is ‘whataboutery’: Bhushan

The Tripura government, in its reply to the Supreme Court, had criticised the (Source: The Hindu)

‘Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the Supreme Court on Monday that it was “totally unbecoming” of the Tripura government to indulge in “whataboutery” by asking why the same petitioners seeking an independent probe on violence in the State were silent about violence of a larger scale in West Bengal.

"I just have to say this... what the State government said amounts to whataboutery. It does not show the State government in a good light. Whataboutery is totally unbecoming of a State government," Mr. Bhushan addressed a Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud.