Congress has repeatedly wounded Constitution, alleges PM Modi in Lok Sabha
The prime minister claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party amended the Constitution only to unite the country.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday claimed that the Congress has repeatedly wounded the Constitution, while the Bharatiya Janata Party brought about amendments to it only to unite the country.
Replying to a two-day debate in the Lower House of Parliament about the completion of 75 years since the adoption of the Constitution, Modi said that the Nehru-Gandhi family “challenged the Constitution at every level” and “changed it to attack freedom of expression”.
The prime minister also said that the Congress was using the Constitution as a tool to frighten people.
Modi claimed that prime ministers from the Congress, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Rajiv Gandhi, strongly opposed reservation. He noted that it was only when the Congress was removed from power that Other Backward Classes got reservations, referring to the VP Singh-led government accepting the Mandal Commission report in 1990.
The prime minister alleged that the Congress was trying to introduce reservations based on religion – a claim that he and other Bharatiya Janata Party members have made several times earlier without citing evidence. He claimed that the Congress, after facing setbacks from the Supreme Court, was trying to implement religion-based quotas under different pretexts.
On Friday, the debate on the adoption of the Constitution saw Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra making...