Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) want to "finish off" the Constitution discreetly, reported PTI.
Without naming the RSS, the Congress MP said, "There is an organisation which has not unfurled our beloved Tri-colour of the Constitution at its office for 52 years."
"Why? The work which Ambedkar ji and the Congress did jointly, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru….Subhash Chandra Bose ji... (Such) Great personalities gave us the Constitution," he further said.
Rahul Gandhi made the remarks while speaking on Constitution Day at a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow, the birthplace of Dr. B R Ambedkar after his Bharat Jodo Yatra reached here.
He said, "The Constitution gave equal rights to every person. And its symbol was the beloved Tricolour."
"The RSS and BJP people can not finish off the Constitution openly. They do not have the courage....if they try, the country would stop them," he added.
According to PTI, Rahul Gandhi said that the Constitution is not a mere book but a "living power, a thought," and alleged that the RSS wanted to erase that thought.
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He accused RSS of putting its men in vital organisations like the judiciary, and media with an aim to finish off the Constitution through the backdoor.
He also spoke about the assassinations of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi, his grandmother, and his father Rajiv Gandhi. “My grandmother took 32 bullets. My grandmother was killed. My father was killed. (But) The day hatred went away from me, only love bloomed in my heart. Nothing else,” he said.
Gandhi said that he is fighting the RSS and prime minister Narendra Modi, but he has no hatred against the RSS or prime minister. "Not even a speck of hatred. Why, because I do not nurse hatred," he said, quoted PTI.
“I appeal BJP, Narendra Modi ji, Amit Shah ji, RSS people, get rid of fear in your heart, the hatred will melt away. Your fear is causing hatred and inflicting damage on the country. People who have love never fear….The people who fear, cannot love,” Gandhi added.
He said that this was the message of his cross-country foot-march (Bharat Jodo Yatra) too.
November 26 is observed as Constitution Day since 2015 to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly in 1949.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Gandhi entered Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra through Burhanpur on November 23 and would be covering a distance of 380 kilometres before crossing into Rajasthan on December 4.
The long march has so far covered 1396 km and passed through 34 districts in seven states.
(With PTI Inputs)