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Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha Speech on the Constitution Debate: Key Quotes | India News – Times of India
The LoP has cornered the BJP, saying that when it talks about protecting the country’s Constitution, it is ‘ridiculing Savarkar’.
“The worst thing about the Constitution of India is that there is nothing Indian about it. Manusmriti is that scripture which is the most worshipable to our Hindu nation after the Vedas and from which our ancient times have become the basis for our culture, customs, thoughts and actions. This book has codified the spiritual and divine march of our nation for centuries. Today, Manusmiriti is the law.
“I want to ask you (ruling side): do you support the words of your leader? Do you support your leader’s words? Because when you speak in Parliament about protecting the Constitution, you are ridiculing Savarkar, you are taking advantage of Savarkar, you are defaming Savarkar,” he added.
Quoting the story of Eklavya, Rahul said that just as Dronacharya took the thumb of Eklavya, the saffron party has taken the thumbs of farmers, the backward classes and the youth of the country.
“If you hand over Dharavi to Adani, you will cut off the thumbs of entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses. If you hand over India’s ports, airports and defense industries to Adani, you will cut off the thumbs of all fair play companies in India that operate honestly. he said.
Here are the key quotes from Rahul Gandhi’s speech:
- “When we look at this Constitution, we remember this list of people, old different variants of the same idea… and before us stand the people who follow a very different philosophical tradition. And I want to start my speech by quoting what the supreme leader, not of the BJP, but of the modern interpretation of the ideas of the RSS, has to say about the Constitution of India and how he thinks India should be governed. .. ‘The worst thing about the Constitution of India is that there is nothing Indian about that scripture which after the Vedas is the most worshipful to our Hindu nation, and from which our ancient times have become the basis of our culture, customs, thought and practice. This book has codified the spiritual and divine march of our present nation for centuries, manusmriti is law’. These are the words of Savarkar. He has clearly stated in his writing that there is nothing Indian about our Constitution.”
- “I want to ask you (ruling side): do you support the words of your leader? Do you support your leader’s words? Because when you speak in Parliament about protecting the Constitution, you are ridiculing Savarkar, you are taking advantage of Savarkar, you are defaming Savarkar.”
- “Constitution is a document of modern India, but it could never have been written without ancient India, its ideas”
- “When we open the Constitution, we can hear the voice and ideas of Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru”
- ‘If you (BJP) talk about protecting the Constitution, you are ridiculing Savarkar’
- “This is Abhayamudra. Confidence, strength and fearlessness come through skill, through thumb. These people are against this. The way Dronacharya is cutting off the thumb of Eklavya, you are cutting off the thumb of the entire nation… When If you If you hand over India’s ports, airports and defense industries to Adani, you will cut off the thumbs of all entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses away from all fair trade in India.
- “When you implemented Agniveer, you cut off the thumb of the youth. If you had paper leaks – you had 70 paper leaks, you cut off the thumb of the youth of India… Today you threw tear gas shells at farmers outside Delhi, you have lathi -levies unleashed on farmers.Farmers demand MSP from you.They demand appropriate price.But you facilitate the profit for Adani and Ambani and cut off the thumb of farmers. “Hum aapka angootha kaat denge.”
