Below are the best quotes from today's Arnab-Salve interview (as tweeted by Republic). Salve has confirmed the rumour that he was he first choice to be AG, instead of Rohatgi. He obviously declined it. He also praises Modi a lot. Thus far, the big prize he has got from the govt is thePadma Vibhushan. Will he get a bigger prize? ICJ judgeship? Maybe even President/Vice President of India?

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We had a very powerful court till 1973 when the Supreme Court gave the basic structure judgment as the court stood up to a very powerful leader, Mrs Indira Gandhi. It hit its lowest point in 1976 in the preventive detention case:

I've said about Ayodhya Judgment and on farm laws: Judgment has findings & conclusions. I've not come across a single article or tweet by Mr Bhushan which deconstructs the judgment, finds something wrong or unfair:

People have had enough of sterile socialism & the kind of secularism we've seen has turned people off. One of the first things Narendra Modi did on becoming PM is dial me and ask me to be A-G. He didn't first think I'm a baptised Christian

That I'm not a fan of the Congress party isn't a military secret. What I'm seeing today is a change coming in India. Doon School governance has been replaced by a leader of the people, a grassroots leader like Narendra Modi

Mumbai used to have one of the best police forces, until a particular CM came. A politician-police-criminal nexus came about, which has gone on for some time:

We have these commentators who give these one-liner smart alec comments on Twitter & who like to position themselves as 'social influencers'. I think it's the people who believe them are whom I feel sorry for, but it's not the majority