We can say with pride that we’re the champions of Constitution: BJP chief Nadda

Referring to the Constitution, Nadda declared immoderate of the favored ideological themes espoused by his enactment arsenic law commitments, projecting the Congress arsenic a enactment that damaged the “soul” of the Constitution. He took pridefulness successful the information that the main curate of Jammu and Kashmir has for the archetypal clip since 1950 taken the oath of bureau connected the Indian Constitution.

Asserting that the continuation of instant triple talaq till immoderate years agone was against the committedness of equality successful the Constitution, Nadda said, “We judge successful equality. So wherever did triple talaq travel from? There is nary triple talaq successful Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq oregon Indonesia. It does not beryllium successful Islamic countries. But we were inactive accepting triple talaq here. It was astatine the clip of PM Modi that it was yet removed.” On August 22, 2017, the Supreme Court banned instant triple talaq and Parliament passed a Bill to penalise it successful 2019.

“The Constitution said that each states are adjacent and are an integral portion of India. But wherever did this Article 370 travel from? Why wasn’t it stuck disconnected for truthful long? It was abrogated nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After 75 years, the main curate of Jammu and Kashmir has for the archetypal clip taken the oath connected the Indian Constitution,” Nadda said, claiming that the now-repealed Article 370 was violative of the Constitution.

‘Over 75,000 of our radical went to jail’

Attacking the Congress implicit the imposition of the Emergency, Nadda obliquely claimed recognition for the Jana Sangh and the RSS for having opposed it. He said, “One enactment tried to harm the Constitution clip and again. They person made perverse attempts to construe the Constitution wrongly truthful arsenic to harm its precise soul. The Emergency was imposed for 2 years, and Articles 19,20,21 and 22 were suspended. There was nary state of code and state of press. More than 1.36 lakh radical were detained nether MISA and DIR. More than 75,000 of the radical who went to jailhouse to support the Constitution were from our ideology. They did not adjacent cognize whether they would travel retired of jailhouse oregon not.”

The BJP president added the Congress had dismissed elected governments 90 times and had besides tried to subvert the judiciary.

Lauding the Narendra Modi authorities for the transition of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam to pave the way for women’s preservation successful Parliament and authorities legislatures successful future, Nadda said, “The Bill had been introduced successful the Lok Sabha successful 1996. But who were the radical who made it wait? The Bill was passed nether PM Modi and our sisters volition person preservation successful the adjacent elections.”

Ambedkar’s Bharat Ratna

Nadda besides accused the Congress of having been anti-Ambedkar. “They insulted Dr BR Ambedkar successful his lifetime. We should work what Dr Ambedkar wrote successful his resignation missive and wherefore it was suppressed. We would cognize which enactment contested against him to halt him from coming to the Lok Sabha. Congress governments did not springiness him Bharat Ratna; it was a BJP-supported authorities that gave him this award. His photograph besides began to adorn Parliament aft this.”

While Ambedkar was a professional of the Congress, the Jawaharlal Nehru authorities had included him successful the archetypal cabinet, of which Syama Prasad Mookerji, who aboriginal founded the Jana Sangh, was besides a part. Years later, Ambedkar resigned from the authorities implicit absorption to the Hindu Code Bill from sections of the Opposition and the government, and the Panchjanya astatine a clip erstwhile Atal Bihari Vajpayee worked for it, starring to Nehru delaying the transition of the Bill aimed astatine reforming Hindu idiosyncratic laws.

Nadda said the Constituent Assembly had decided that determination cannot beryllium preservation based connected religion, but added that the Congress had clip and again tried to “bring it done the backdoor and deprive the SCs, STs and OBCs of their rights”.

He praised the Modi authorities for giving law presumption to the OBC committee and offering 10 per cent preservation for economically weaker sections among the guardant communities.

“It took 65 years for the enactment of this state to commencement celebrating Constitution Day. This raises a question people connected that leadership. The Samvidhan Gaurav Yatra was started successful Gujarat by Narendra Modi, and aft helium became premier curate successful 2014, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment issued a notification connected November 19, 2015, that Constitution Day would beryllium celebrated connected November 26. This makes america deliberation astir what was the spot of the Constitution successful the minds of those successful powerfulness till then,” Nadda said.

“And Congress radical besides said that we anyhow observe January 26, truthful what’s the request to observe November 26? People should retrieve whose contribution—and which leadership’s contribution—is determination successful presenting the Constitution to the radical successful a close manner,” the BJP president added.