Congress chief Kharge accuses PM Modi of murdering Constitution every day

New Delhi, July 12

Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for declaring June 25 as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Divas’, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said that in the last 10 years, the government headed by Modi “celebrated” murder of the Constitution every day.

In a statement addressed to Prime Minister Modi, Kharge wrote, “You have snatched away the self-respect of every poor and deprived section of the country.”

“When a BJP leader urinates on tribals in Madhya Pradesh, or when the police forcibly cremates the Dalit daughter of Hathras in UP, what is it if not murder of the Constitution?” Kharge asked.

The Constitution is murdered when every 15 minutes a major crime against Dalits takes place and every day six Dalit women are raped, Kharge said.

The Constitution is murdered when minorities are subjected to illegal bulldozer justice, demolishing 1.5 lakh houses in just two years and 7.38 lakh people are rendered homeless, Kharge wrote.

Noting that Manipur is in the grip of violence for the last 13 months and Modi does not even want to set foot there, Kharge asked what is it if not murder of the Constitution?

Kharge added that BJP-RSS-Jan Sangh never accepted the Constitution. RSS’ mouthpiece Organiser had written in the editorial of its November 30, 1949 issue: “The worst thing about this new Constitution of India is that there is nothing Indian in it,” he wrote.

“When you arbitrarily implemented demonetisation, crushed an institution like RBI, killed 120 persons by making them stand in queues in banks and mocked the common people by clapping and saying “there’s a wedding at home, but no money…” what is it if not murder of the Constitution?” Kharge asked.

“When you did not provide buses and trains to lakhs of workers during Covid and forced them to walk hundreds of kilometres, without caring about the blisters on their feet, did it not amount to the murder of democracy?” Kharge asked Modi.

Kharge also mentioned various other issues, including five sitting Supreme Court judges accusing the government of interference, the alleged misuse of central probe agencies and others.