PM Modi wanted to throw Constitution away, but ended up bowing before it: Rahul

Holding a transcript of the Constitution adjacent to his head, Gandhi said, “When Modiji entered Parliament aft winning a 3rd term, helium did similar this. He wanted to propulsion the Constitution away. But our concerted combat made him springiness up his boast of a 400-plus spot triumph for the BJP.”

Notably, remarks by a fewer BJP leaders that the Constitution mightiness beryllium “changed” if the enactment won much than 400 seats successful the 543-strong Lok Sabha were latched connected by the Opposition INDIA bloc, led by Congress, successful past year’s wide elections.

According to galore surveys, the refrain “Constitution successful danger” had resonated with a conception of Dalits and backward classes who felt reservations could beryllium done distant with and refused to ballot overwhelmingly successful favour of the BJP-led NDA, causing the saffron enactment to autumn abbreviated of bulk and becoming heavy babelike connected allies. Gandhi, who spoke for a small implicit 30 minutes, besides linked the Constitution with a agelong concatenation of progressive ideas successful the country, starting from the Buddha, and continuing till the times of newer icons similar Ambedkar, and Narayana Guru.

The relation was addressed by radical from assorted walks of life, 2 of whom were formerly associated with NDA spouse JD(U), headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

While Ali Anwar, a erstwhile MP who runs an organisation dedicated to the origin of Pasmanda Muslims, spoke astatine immoderate magnitude astir issues helium powerfully felt about, Bhagirath Manjhi, the lad of legendary stone-cutter Dashrath Manjhi, nicknamed “mountain man”, gave a hardly 5 minutes agelong code successful which helium stressed connected the request for placing nine earlier self.

Later, addressing enactment workers astatine the humanities Sadaqat Ashram, Gandhi vowed to inflict an “ideological defeat” connected the BJP-RSS harvester successful Bihar, a “land of revolution”, wherever assembly polls are owed aboriginal this year.

“The federation is witnessing a combat betwixt Samvidhan and Manuvad,” said Gandhi, who besides claimed that RSS main Mohan Bhagwat’s caller connection that the state got “true Independence” lone aft the consecration of Ram temple astatine Ayodhya past twelvemonth was a virtual “disowning of the Constitution”.