Constitution Day: Congress launches attacks on PM Modi, RSS over statute, pushes for caste census | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge accused Prime Minister Modi of publicly praising the Constitution for political reasons and said RSS had mocked the Constitution for not being inspired by “Manusmriti” and argued that there was nothing Indian in its contents.
Quoting the editorial of the RSS organ ‘Organiser’ on November 30, 1949, Kharge said: ‘Prime Minister Modi, when your people said this, why are you celebrating the Constitution? These people are duplicitous. Why is the Prime Minister not contradicting what RSS has said? was it wrong? The RSS should apologize for this.”
He said Modi fears caste census as every community will demand its share. Moreover, the census has begun in Telangana and every Congress-ruled state will undertake it.
Kharge and Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter to the Speakers of both Houses requesting two-day discussions on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the framing of the Constitution. Kharge said that “Manusmriti” stipulates that “shudras” and women should not have any rights, but the Constitution gave them inalienable rights.
“You (BJP) are talking about 3,000 years ago when there were no rights. We gave those rights.” Rahul said the Constitution “has the voice of Narayan Guru, Basvanna, Phule, Shivaji etc. But does it also have the voice of Savarkar? Does it say that violence should be used and that people should be intimidated or killed,” he said, adding: “It is a book of truth and non-violence.”
Kharge said the LS polls were fought under Rahul to save the Constitution. “If Modi had won a majority, he would have become a dictator. He is now leading a minority government, with Naidu as one leg and Bihar CM as the other,” he said.