BJP MP Tejasvi Surya speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024.
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New Delhi: Slamming Congress, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Saturday said that those who attacked the Constitution today posing as they are the "champions" of the Constitution.
Participating in a two-day debate in the Lok Sabha on the "Glorious Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India", the Bangalore South MP said that "Imposing Emergency, suspending fundamental rights, forcible sterilisation of people were attacks on the Constitution and today, we are listening to their speeches on the Constitution."
Surya alleged that the insertion of the words "socialist" and "secular" in the Constitution was an attempt at making it rigid.
"The forcible insertion of (the words) socialist and secular in the Indian Constitution, during the 42nd amendment, was not the first attempt at introducing these two ideas in the Constitution and making the Constitution rigid. Even during the Constituent Assembly debates, a proposal was made to add (the words) socialist and secular into the Constitution's Preamble and this was categorically rejected by Baba Saheb (Ambedkar) and the reason is very telling," he added.
Surya claimed that Katchatheevu was not the first time Congress has ceded territory but also in the case of Aksai Chin. “And more recently it was learnt that the UPA government was ready to even give away Siachin to Pakistan. This is their commitment to the territorial integrity of this country,” he says.
Insisting that the BJP was the protector of the Constitution, he said that the political parties like Congress' only objective was to create a monopoly for dynasty in politics and a monopoly in the economy, so there will be no challenge to the Congress party's first family.