Terming the contented “unnecessary”, Leader of Opposition successful RS Mallikarjun Kharge said it was an effort to spark a contention (PTI)
BJP Rajya Sabha subordinate Radha Mohan Das Agrawal claimed Tuesday that 22 miniature illustrations by creator Nandalal Bose were “missing” from newer copies of the Constitution, prompting Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar to entreaty to the authorities to marque “amends, enactment and guarantee that lone the authentic transcript of the Constitution is available”.
In a veiled onslaught connected Congress, Agrawal raised the contented during the Zero Hour and said, “If a national oregon a pupil goes to bargain a transcript of the Constitution, helium is incapable to get the archetypal mentation signed by the makers of our Constitution. I americium not alert for what crushed and erstwhile this happened but cardinal portions of that mentation of the Constitution were omitted unconstitutionally. We each cognize that law amendments person to travel a procedure, including removal of afloat halt and commas.”
He referred to the illustrations of the Indus Valley seal, Lord Ram, Buddha, Mahavir, Krishna and Arjun from the Mahabharat, Samrat Vikramaditya, Laxmibai, Shivaji and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Amid uproar from the Opposition benches, Dhankhar appealed to the Leader of the House JP Nadda to guarantee that lone the authentic mentation of the Constitution beryllium promulgated. “Any usurpation should beryllium taken earnestly by the authorities and superior enactment taken,” helium said.
Terming the contented “unnecessary”, Leader of Opposition successful RS Mallikarjun Kharge said it was an effort to spark a contention and sought to cognize whether the copies provided by the House to the MPs included those illustrations. Later, the Congress MPs walked retired of the House.
Nadda, however, said that the contented raised was important. When helium was fixed a transcript of the archetypal version, Nadda showed it to the House and said, “These illustrations are not printed and published successful today’s copies. The authorities volition guarantee that the Constitution is published with the afloat emotions it was intended to beryllium done.”
After the substance was raised successful the House, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat made the archetypal transcript of the Constitution with the illustrations disposable to the MPs connected their tablets during the Question Hour, a root said.