Congress Never Showed Respect For The Constitution: BJP

Congress never showed respect for the Constitution: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s attack on the opposition.

Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday slammed the Congress for criticizing the central probe agencies and claimed that the main opposition party never showed respect for the Constitution.

The senior BJP leader referred to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tearing up a copy of the ordinance passed by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led Union Cabinet.

He also alleged that the opposition party completely disregards constitutional values.

Congress never showed respect for the Constitution: The emergency period was also mentioned.

In 2013, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) passed an ordinance allowing people facing criminal charges to contest elections, which was torn down by Rahul Gandhi at a press conference.

Targeting Congress, Pradhan also referred to the Emergency.

When Rahul Gandhi said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership police rule has been established in India and investigative agencies are being misused, Pradhan said, “All these are fiction-based things.”

Many leaders were taken into custody.

Several senior party leaders and MPs led by Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday protested against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioning Sonia Gandhi in a money laundering case.

This case is related to the National Herald, Rahul Gandhi was taken into custody by the police.

Pradhan mocked the opposition party saying that Congress did not have the right to make such claims as it violated constitutional values ​​on several occasions when it was in power.

“Those who imposed Emergency in the country in defiance of constitutional values, it does not suit them to make such allegations. Congress never showed respect for the Constitution.”

Rahul Gandhi tore an ordinance passed by the Union Cabinet even when he was the Prime Minister of Congress.