New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an all-out attack on the Opposition in Lok Sabha this evening. Responding to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to President’s address on the eve of the Delhi election, he targeted the Opposition on multiple fronts – starting with Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party – and then went on to the Congress and Rahul Gandhi, with multiple references to the Constitution – which provided the thrust to the Congress attack since before the Lok Sabha election.
Only the BJP and its allies “Understand the spirit of the Constitution and live by it,” PM Modi had said in his opening remarks on the Constitution and the Congress.
“Everyone can live for themselves but those who live for the constitution are sitting here. When power becomes dynasty, it ends democracy,” PM Modi said.
“Some openly speak the language of Urban Naxals. Those who declare war against Indian state can’t understand the country’s constitution or democracy,” he added.
Then, in another attack directed at Mr Gandhi, who had time and again produced a copy of the Constitution to target the BJP, he said, “Our constitution doesn’t teach us to discriminate… Those who roam around with constitution in their pockets never cared about Muslim women”.
This was part of the BJP’s renewed focus on the constitution after the Lok Sabha election, in which the Opposition claims that the ruling party was aiming to do away with BR Ambedkar’s constitution had given the Congress enough seats for it to gain the position of the Leader of the Opposition – a post that has gone to Mr Gandhi.
PM Modi, though, said it was the government’s principle to uphold the constitution that had helped the Opposition at times.
“We have included Opposition leaders in meetings on the election commission. We do this because we believe in living the Constitution,” he said.