Congress MP and LoP in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, expressed his views amid the ongoing row over “Secular” and “Socialist” words in the preamble of the Constitution. Rahul Gandhi lashed out at BJP and RSS, saying, “The Constitution irks BJP-RSS because it speaks of equality, secularism, and justice.”
Rahul Gandhi posted on X, “ The mask of RSS has come off again. The Constitution irks them because it speaks of equality, secularism, and justice. RSS-BJP doesn’t want the Constitution; they want Manusmriti. They aim to strip the marginalized and the poor of their rights and enslave them again. Snatching a powerful weapon like the Constitution from them is their real agenda. RSS should stop dreaming this dream – we will never let them succeed. Every patriotic Indian will defend the Constitution until their last breath.”
This came after RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale questioned the legitimacy of including the terms “socialist” and “secular” in the Preamble of the Indian Constitution on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Senior Congress leader and MP KC Venugopal lashed out at the RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s statement and claimed that the leader’s remarks were an insult to the Constitution, a rejection of its values, and a direct attack on the Supreme Court.
In a post on X, Venugopal said, “The RSS’ single-minded focus to destroy the Constitution is never hidden for too long. Beyond the BJP’s lip service to the Constitution, their hidden agenda has always been to distort and destroy our Constitution – because it stands against the core fascist beliefs of the RSS-BJP.”
“A senior RSS member surely knows that the Supreme Court declared socialism and secularism to be part of the basic structure of the Constitution. Yet, to take this stand is a clear insult to the Constitution, a rejection of its values, and a direct attack on the Supreme Court of India as well,” he posted on X.
Speaking to mediapersons over Hosabale’s statement, KC Venugopal said, “Undeclared censorship has been there in this country now. Over the past 11 years, India has experienced a kind of undeclared emergency. Where are our constitutional bodies? What are the activities of the Election Commission itself? Every constitutional body that has been attacked by the BJP and PM Modi.”
