Will amend Constitution to undo ‘anti-Hindu’ changes made by Congress: Karnataka BJP MP Ananthkumar Hegde
Hegde made the remarks while explaining the “Abki baar 400 par” slogan coined by the BJP ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
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He said the amendments would reverse the “unnecessary things” introduced by the Congress to “subjugate the Hindu community”. (Express file photo)BJP MP and former Union minister Ananthkumar Hegde has said the party will amend the Constitution after securing a two-thirds majority in the Rajya Sabha. He said the amendments would reverse the “unnecessary things” introduced by the Congress to “subjugate the Hindu community”.
“The Constitution has to be amended because Congress people have fundamentally altered it by introducing some unnecessary things, especially laws that subjugate the Hindu community. If all this has to change, it cannot be done without a two-thirds majority,” he said at an event on Saturday at Siddapur in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district.
Hegde made the remarks while explaining the “Abki baar 400 par” slogan coined by the BJP ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Congress responded asking whether amending the constitution was an election issue for the BJP. “An MP who had once talked of ‘changing the constitution’, is now speaking of ‘amending the constitution?… Are BJP leaders unable to live under the constitution of Baba Saheb Ambedkar?” the ruling party said in a post on the X website.
In January, Hegde called for demolishing several mosques in the state contending that they were built over Hindu temples. In 2019, the former Union minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asking how he could be a Hindu as he was “born to a Muslim father and Christian mother”. In the same year, he said that “a hand that touches a Hindu girl should not survive”.
Among his most controversial statements was the one made in 2020, that the freedom movement led by Mahatma Gandhi was a “drama”. In 2017, he drew flak for saying the BJP had come to power to “change the constitution”.
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