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Rahul Gandhi successful New Delhi connected Tuesday. (Express photograph by Anil Sharma)
ADDRESSING the Congress’s ‘Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan’ lawsuit astatine Talkatora Stadium present to people Constitution Day Tuesday, Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said helium could warrant that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not work the statute. “If PM Modi had work this book, helium would not bash what helium does daily,” Gandhi said.
Holding up a transcript of the Constitution arsenic helium spoke, Gandhi said the statute speaks of societal empowerment and carries the ideas espoused by B R Ambedkar, Jyotiba Phule, Lord Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi.
“Is determination (Veer) Savarkar’s dependable successful this book? Is it written successful this publication that determination should beryllium violence, that a idiosyncratic should beryllium killed oregon intimidated? Is it written successful it that a authorities should beryllium tally connected falsehood?” Gandhi said, calling the Constitution “a publication of information and non-violence” and reflecting “the reasoning of India for the past thousands of years”.
He went connected to talk astatine magnitude connected “the request for a caste census” and promised that Congress-ruled states would clasp it.
During his speech, Gandhi said that successful reality, the full strategy successful the state was skewed against the Dalits, backwards and tribals, and that a caste census was a measurement towards changing that. The time caste census information comes into the hands of a Congress government, the full paradigm of improvement volition change, helium said.
The BJP did not privation a caste census arsenic it wanted “only 4-5% of radical to power the full country”, the Congress person added.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who besides spoke astatine the event, said the Lok Sabha predetermination results were a occurrence of the Congress’s run centered astir the Constitution, led by Gandhi. The SCs, STs, backwards, minorities and intellectuals had each travel guardant to “save democracy” successful the elections, Kharge said.
Questioning the elaborate solemnisation of Constitution Day, including year-long festivities to people 75 years of its adoption, by a authorities led by the BJP, Kharge said “those who are weakening the Constitution today, their ancestors were informers of the British police”. The Congress main besides alleged that the Adani Group had played a large relation successful the Maharashtra Assembly elections, successful which the Maha Vikas Aghadi was wiped out. “He (Adani) has accumulated truthful overmuch wealthiness – rather, it is amended to accidental that Modi ji has fixed him truthful overmuch wealthiness – that helium is not capable to digest it and is distributing it successful the elections connected the BJP’s behalf,” Kharge said.
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