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Save Constitution? Hmm, it’s ‘save dynasty’: Amit Shah

BJP president terms Rahul’s campaign a farce, says he’s spreading hatred

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Amit Shah during an event in New Delhi on Sunday
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While Congress president Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to kickstart his 'Save the Constitution' campaign on Monday, BJP chief Amit Shah tore into Gandhi's narrative, accusing the Congress of trying to save the Gandhi dynasty, than India Constitution.

He called the campaign a "farce that seeks to perpetuate the rule of dynasty over the rule of democracy".

In a Facebook post, titled 'Saving the Constitution or Saving Dynasty?', Shah said: "Those who do not trust the Army, the Judiciary, the Supreme Court, the Election Commission, EVMs, the RBI are now saying 'democracy is in danger!'."

Accusing the Congress of taking recourse to "the only path it knows", of "spreading hate and divisions" in society, Shah said Congress' "Modi hatred is fast turning into India hatred".

In the current context of the impeachment bid against CJI Dipak Misra, Shah claimed that Congress had "trampled over the Constitution in letter and spirit, time and again", it did so to "demonise and weaken every institution that seeks to maintain its individual identity and not kowtow to the Dynasty".

Shah said judiciary, "an institution that is trusted by 125 crore Indians" was the latest to invite the "wrath of Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in particular" just as the Army that had "repeatedly been the Congress' target". "During the UPA years a Chief of Army Staff was targeted and the entire Army was dragged into political slugfests."

Mentioning how the Congress went after the institution of the CAG in the aftermath of "grand awakening against the corruption of the UPA" and which brought out "uncomfortable truths about the Congress and the dynasty", Shah attributed attacks on the Election Commission as a result of "last four years, when the Congress has been facing defeat after defeat". Shah went on to pun on guns, as he wrote that Congress had trained "its guns (not the Bofors kind)" on the EC.

Shah referred to the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi when "Constitution was hijacked and held hostage to the whims and fancies of one leader" in the "wake of our challenging the malpractices" of the late PM.

"In 1957, when Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister and Mrs. Indira Gandhi the Congress President, the Communist Government in Kerala was dismissed. From the Telugu Desam Party to the Socialists to the Akali Dal, no party has escaped this insult. Just because the Congress did not like a non-Congress government, it was dismissed and their leaders hounded."

Shah alleged that in Rahul Gandhi's assertion that "Congress made the Constitution" the latter continued "his family legacy of humiliating Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar" showing "disdain for the maker of the Constitution".

"It is well known how Pandit Nehru personally ensured the defeat of Dr. Ambedkar in not one but two elections."

"It is also no coincidence that in 1997, the year Mrs. Sonia Gandhi took primary membership of the Congress the Congress-Third Front Government took away promotional benefits of SC/ST employees! It was the Vajpayee Government that amended Article 16(4A) of the Constitution and ensured justice to SC/ST employees."

SHAH SPEAK

  • Those who do not trust the Army, the Judiciary, the Supreme Court, the EC, EVMs, the RBI are saying ‘democracy is in danger!
     
  • Attacks on EC is a result of last 4 years’ defeat after defeat the Cong has been facing.
     
  • During Nehru-Indira time just because Cong did not like a non-Cong govt, it was dismissed and their leaders hounded.
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