Prakash Ambedkar hits out PM Modi for remark on Constitution, questions Congress’s silence
At a campaign rally in Maharashtra’s Ramtek on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attacked the Congress saying it had never implemented the Constitution in the entire country when in power.
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VBA president Prakash Ambedkar addresses a press conference, in Nagpur on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remark on the Congress failing to implement the Constitution across the country was “ridiculous and absurd”. He also criticised the Congress’s “deafening silence” on the statement.
“It is nothing but the wild imagination of the PM. How can anybody who has read and studied history and politics make such statements? If somebody is saying such a baseless thing, it shows he does not know the A, B, C, D of the Constitution,” Ambedkar said.
Ambedkar was referring to PM Modi’s attack on the Congress at a campaign rally in Ramtek in Maharashtra’s eastern Vidarbha region on Wednesday. Modi had said that Congress was spreading falsehoods about the Constitution being diluted and had never implemented it in the entire country when in power.
“They [Congress] have done injustice to the Constitution, whose architect was Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. On the contrary, it was the NDA government which for the first time ensured its uniform implementation after the abrogation of Article 370. Through Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir was accorded separate rights,” PM Modi had said.
“Although the idea, concept and drafting of the Constitution was the hard work of Babasaheb Ambedkar, it was adopted and approved in the then Congress Working Committee. Article 370, moved for consideration under Article 306A, was adopted in the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly. Therefore, enforcement of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of the Indian Constitution. It was not a decision taken outside the Constitution. It was not in violation of the Constitution,” the grandson of Dr B R Ambedkar told The Indian Express.
It was unfortunate that the Congress has forgotten its own history and political legacy, Ambedkar said. “What the PM or the BJP says about the Constitution is part of its agenda but what is more appalling is the failure of the Opposition to counter it effectively,” he added.
Ambedkar’s VBA has parted ways with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition in Maharashtra and announced it would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on its own.
“Both Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) have deliberately fielded weak candidates against the Mahayuti in Maharashtra. It is obvious they are under pressure from central agencies and want to play safe by soft-pedalling on BJP and its alliance partners,” he alleged.
“The 2024 Lok Sabha polls are a fight between the NDA versus ‘We The People of India’. The VBA is representing the people of India,” Ambedkar said. “The BJP can spread falsehoods…but people are well aware of facts. They will give a befitting reply,” he added.
The VBA is set to contest 46 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Elections in the state will be held in five phases from April 19 to May 20.
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