New Delhi, Nov 8 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday slammed the BJP over its leader Devendra Fadnavis’ comments on Rahul Gandhi showing a ‘red-covered’ copy of the Constitution and said the people of Maharashtra and the country will give a befitting reply to the “anti-constitution and anti-reservation” BJP.
His comments came after Fadnavis asked what message Rahul Gandhi wanted to give by showing a red-covered copy of the Constitution of India. Fadnavis also accused the Congress leader of building a coalition of anarchists.
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“We are asking this question not only to the former chief minister of Maharashtra and the chief minister of Assam, but also to Modi Ji, who had to bow to the Constitution after the Lok Sabha elections in Parliament,” Kharge said.
By repeatedly linking the Constitution to Naxalism, do the BJP/RSS leaders want to bring their defeated agenda of implementing Manusmriti in the country, he wondered.
The BJP/RSS leaders cannot tolerate the Constitution giving equal rights to all and empowering Dalits, tribals, backward, minority and poor classes, Kharge alleged.
He quoted a paragraph from an editorial in what he called “RSS Mouthpiece Organizer” in the issue of November 30, 1949, which stated that the worst thing about this new Constitution of India is that there is nothing Indian in it.
The RSS was clearly against the main architect of the Indian Constitution, BR Ambedkar, and supported Manusmriti, the Congress chief claimed.
“The entire country knows how the Sangh Parivar used to burn copies of the Constitution and effigies of Pandit Nehru and Babasaheb Ambedkar ji!” Charge said.
“The people of Maharashtra and the country will give a befitting response to the anti-Constitution and anti-reservation BJP,” he said.
Taking Fadnavis into account, Rahul Gandhi had said in a post on X in Hindi on Thursday that according to the former Maharashtra chief minister, showing Babasaheb’s Constitution and raising his voice for a caste census is a “Naxalite idea”.
“This thinking of the BJP is an insult to the constitution maker, Maharashtra’s son Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar,” he had said.
“During the Lok Sabha elections, the people of Maharashtra fought for the Constitution and gave a big victory to the Maha Vikas Aghadi.
“The people of Maharashtra will not tolerate any insult to Babasaheb by the BJP and along with the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi, they will defend our Constitution by responding with full force to any attack on it,” he had said.
Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday campaigned for the opposition Congress-NCP(SP)-Shiv Sena (UBT) alliance in the state where assembly elections will be held on November 20.
He carried a copy of the Constitution with a predominantly red cover at the Samvidhan Samman Sammelan Convention in Nagpur. PTI QUESTION DV DV
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