Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, on Monday, questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the demands made by certain BJP leaders, including a Member of Parliament, to change the Constitution of the country.
The Congress will launch nationwide protests from Tuesday over the BJP’s alleged intent to change the Constitution.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters, Kharge accused Modi of deliberately looking the other way while senior BJP and RSS leaders have suggested that the Constitution needs to be changed. He accused the BJP and the RSS of being against the social justice guaranteed by the Constitution and the word “secularism” in it.
Kharge warned that any attempt to change the Constitution will have dangerous repercussions and disastrous consequences. “The prime minister makes others say such things. If he does not agree with what the BJP MP from Karnataka said, why does he not take action against him.”
He was referring to the statement made by BJP MP Anant Hegde that a two-thirds majority is needed in Parliament to change the Constitution.
Kharge said there is an agenda behind the BJP seeking to win 400 plus seats, and added that the party will never win those many seats.
He said the BJP has already weakened the autonomous constitutional bodies like the CAG as the government no longer acknowledged and accepted the CAG reports.
The Congress leader claimed that according to various CAG reports, the BJP governments at the Centre and states had committed scams worth Rs 8.5 lakh crore. He said the BJP government was hiding it, and had it been about others, it would have created a huge ruckus.
The Congress president reiterated his party’s demand for 100 per cent counting of the VVPAT slips, and wondered why the Election Commission avoided answers on this issue.
On State Bank of India seeking four-and-a-half months for revealing the names of those who purchased electoral bonds, he said the Modi government was only trying to hide its foul deeds.
