Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a swipe at the Sangh saying that it aggressively opposed Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement in 1942 and called the Constitution adopted on November 26, 1949 as ‘Unindian’ because it was inspired by ‘Manu’ and praised Lalu Prasad Yadav’s article for debunking non biological Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He took a jibe while reacting to a news article written by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Ramesh, who is also party’s communication incharge said, “The very same Sangh that aggressively opposed Gandhiji’s Quit India Movement in 1942 and called the Constitution adopted on Nov 26 1949 as ‘UnIndian’ because it was not inspired by Manu.”
“This is a superb piece that debunks and fully exposes the non-biological PM,” Ramesh said while taking a pot shot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ramesh was responding to the news article written by Lalu Prasad.
In his article, which Lalu Prasad shared on X, formerly Twitter, and said that “I was the convener of the steering committee that Jayaprakash Narayan—had constituted to carry forward the movement against the excesses of Emergency imposed by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi”.
The RJD supremo said: “I was in jail under the Maintenance of Security Act (MISA) for over 15 months. My colleagues and I did not know many of the BJP ministers speaking about the Emergency today. We hadn’t heard of Modi, J P Nadda and some of the PM’s other ministerial colleagues who today lecture us on the value of freedom.”
“Indira Gandhi put many of us behind bars, but she never abused us. Neither she nor her ministers called us ‘anti-national’ or ‘unpatriotic’. She never enabled vandals to defile the memory of Babasaheb Ambedkar—the architect of our Constitution. 1975 is a stain on our democracy but let’s not forget who doesn’t respect the Opposition in 2024,” the RJD supremo said.
The BJP has been critical of the Congress over the issue of emergency in 1975. First Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then Lom Sabha Speaker Om Birla in his acceptance speech in the lower house mentioned about Emergency in 1975.
Even President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday addressed the joint session of both houses of Parliament after the constitution of the 18th Lok Sabha
President Murmu invoked Emergency calling it “an attack on the Constitution and a source of chaos and panic in the country”.
“The Constitution of India withstood all hurdles that came it’s way when it was being formulated and implemented. It also overcame attacks that it faced after independence, in the form of National Emergency imposed in the country 50 years ago,” she said.
