SASARAM: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that as long as the BJP-led government is in power, the Constitution is under threat and people’s rights are not safe.
Mallikarjun Kharge addressing a rally at the launch of the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar’s Sasaram, said the Congress always fights for people’s rights.
“As long as the BJP-led government is in power, the Constitution is under threat and people’s rights are not safe. They are trying to snatch the right to vote. The EC is working like an agent of the Modi government,” he added.
“The PM praised RSS and said that it has been serving the nation for the last 100 years… But this organisation worked with the British.
They supported those who were against India’s freedom. Congress always fought for people’s rights and will continue to do so,” he added.
Kerala CM criticises PM Modi for ‘glorifying RSS’ in Independence Day speech
In related development, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he is using the country’s 79th Independence Day address to glorify the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and V.D. Savarkar.
Pinarayi Vijayan in a statement on social media said choosing Independence Day itself to glorify those who compromised with colonial powers is being seen as an insult to the freedom struggle.
“It’s not acceptable at all as the attempt to project the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and V.D. Savarkar was a central figure in India’s independence movement,” he added.
He went on to point out that the RSS was banned in the aftermath of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination, while Savarkar himself faced trial in the conspiracy linked to Mahatma Gandhi’s murder.
“Associating them with the ‘fatherhood of freedom’ is a denial of history. PM Modi’s Independence Day address, which indirectly valorised the RSS, was a misuse of the solemn occasion. Moreover, the decision of the Indian Petroleum Ministry’s Independence Day greeting card placing Savarkar’s image above Gandhi’s is nothing but a part of a larger conspiracy to rewrite history,” he maintained.
Vijayan ends his piece by stating that any attempt to replace the legacy of humanism and unity with sectarian hatred must be resisted collectively.
