NEW DELHI: The Congress should say "save Constitution" a hundred times a day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said in Lok Sabha referring to the opposition party's 'Save the Constitution' protest last month.
"Congress did not remember to save the Constitution during Emergency," the PM said.
In a hard-hitting response to the opposition's allegations that the government is tampering with the Constitution, the Prime Minister said that Congress needs to develop a deeper understanding of the Constitution.
"There has been a talk of 'save constitution'. I agree Congress should say this 100 times in a day. Maybe they will realize their past mistakes. Did you forget this slogan during Emergency? When the state governments were dismissed? When cabinet resolutions were torn?" PM Modi said during the ongoing discussion on Motion of Thanks to the President's address.
"Who brought the Emergency? Who trampled over the Judiciary? Who has brought the most amendments to the Constitution? Who imposed Article 356 the most? Those who did the above need to get a deeper knowledge of our Constitution," he added.
On the ongoing anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in the country, the Prime Minister said that the protesters might be Muslims for the Congress, for his government they are only Indians.
"The people of India are seeing what is happening in the nation, that too ironically, in the name of saving Constitution. For them, they are Muslims, for us they are all Indians," he said.
"Congress did not remember to save the Constitution during Emergency," the PM said.
In a hard-hitting response to the opposition's allegations that the government is tampering with the Constitution, the Prime Minister said that Congress needs to develop a deeper understanding of the Constitution.
"There has been a talk of 'save constitution'. I agree Congress should say this 100 times in a day. Maybe they will realize their past mistakes. Did you forget this slogan during Emergency? When the state governments were dismissed? When cabinet resolutions were torn?" PM Modi said during the ongoing discussion on Motion of Thanks to the President's address.
"Who brought the Emergency? Who trampled over the Judiciary? Who has brought the most amendments to the Constitution? Who imposed Article 356 the most? Those who did the above need to get a deeper knowledge of our Constitution," he added.
On the ongoing anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in the country, the Prime Minister said that the protesters might be Muslims for the Congress, for his government they are only Indians.
"The people of India are seeing what is happening in the nation, that too ironically, in the name of saving Constitution. For them, they are Muslims, for us they are all Indians," he said.
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