Modi tears into Congress in Lok Sabha, attacks Nehru, Indira, Rajiv, Rahul for ‘undermining’ Constitution
New Delhi: Launching a piercing attack on the Congress in Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said that having “tasted blood” under the first PM, Jawaharlal Nehru, successive governments led by members of the Gandhi family brought a series of amendments in the Constitution, “undermining” its foundational principles.
Responding to the two-day discussion on the ‘Glorious journey of 75 years of the Constitution of India’, Modi, in a speech that lasted two hours, appealed to the country to guard against the “designs of the Congress” to introduce religion-based reservation in its “greed and hunger for power”, and reiterated his commitment to implement a “Secular Civil Code”.
From Nehru to Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi to Sonia Gandhi, and, of course, Rahul Gandhi, Modi was unsparing ...