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Bengaluru: Rahul warns NDA government against distorting Constitution

  •   Sat, Jul 22 2017 10:04:21 AM

Bengaluru, Jul 22 (IANS): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday warned the ruling NDA government against distorting the Constitution and implementing the agenda of the RSS.

"The aim of the union government is to distort the Constitution, which was drafted by B R Ambedkar, and implement the RSS agenda. We should go by what Ambedkar had exhorted us to do - educate, organise and agitate," he said at an international conference here.

Inaugurating an international conference on "Quest for Equity: Reclaiming Social Justice, Re-visiting Ambedkar", Gandhi said truth and power were not the same.



"Truth and power are not the same thing. Truth is what stands up to power," he told the gathering at the opening ceremony of the three-day conference organised by the state government.

Citing a few influential leaders and change makers the world over, Gandhi said iconic personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Ambedkar and and American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr had the ability and courage to speak the truth of power.

"Though the emperor is naked, none had the courage to point it out due to oppression, weakening of the institutions and subversion of democracy to serve the narrow purpose of a few," he asserted.

Drawing parallels to Adolf Hitler's assertion that reality was best understood when it was suppressed, he said a dangerous and global epidemic was to distort truth.

Gandhi also decried casteism and untouchability that were still prevalant across the country.

Human rights activist Martin Luther King III, son of the legendary American civil rights leader, said that like US President Donald Trump's campaign, the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had unleahsed animosity against the minorities.

"Parallels abound between the 'alt-right' in the US and the 'Hindu-extreme right' in India," he said.

Organised by the Karnataka government, the conference will unveil the 'Bengaluru Declaration' outlining specific constitutional, institutional and policy responses to concerns of equity, human rights, freedom and democracy.
  

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  • Kevin, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Modi can fool many Indians for a long time. Modi's ignorant supporters still believe demonetization was as success despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Modi's programs have failed to create the jobs for millions of Indians entering their productive years Modi's foreign jaunts have persuaded India's neighbours to take india's side in India's disputes with China.

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  • A.Quadros, Kundapur

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    It's better to trust the know devil than the unknown angel.

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  • TSPA, India

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Rahul is very intelligent ..I think he is making a veiled comment on recent acts of the cong led state state govt of demanding a separate flag.
    It is also hoodwinking the public on Sasikala getting royal treatment in a state jail

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  • Vijay Benedict, Mlore/Mumbai

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Retarded Rahul has forgotten how he tore off the ordinance approved by the UPA PM and cabinet. This joker is in politics only to provide Indians with some entertainment. Meanwhile Smriti Irani has countered his statements , we will have to see how Rahul reacts, or will he react in the first place.

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  • C.T. Thomas, Nandalike

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Whats this all about? A butt of jokes is the VP of the grand old party. Still some communal minorities are living in the delusion of RaGa being a PM one day.

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  • Desi Jawan, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Paapu first should learn two important things. First to deliver a good speech and second tie his pyjama properly. Then he should talk about constitution.

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  • mahesh, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    pappu, u speak in riddles...
    Talk some sense or atleast talk some facts...
    You are the vice-president of a national party....more is expected of you..

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  • Ramesh S, MANGALORE

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    ..In Karnataka, Congress is in better position since BJP is in disarray and Congress leader most capable of winning state..But RAHUL should change his same old narrative..He should know that people are not fools, there is no intolerance, no threat to democracy/secularism..73% people still believe in MODI..present Govt is in number one position in the world on public faith even after 3 years of power..communal goondaism is practiced by every other organisation but bashing only Sangh parivar, exposing Congress double speak..open appeasement, hatred may ruin Congress chance in state..if not, surely in DK..

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  • MN, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Divide and rule.

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  • Shankar, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Rahul Gandhi or anyone has already lost the rights to talk about the distortion of the constitution long ago. The congress enacted the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, the most controversial provision of the Act was that it gave a Muslim woman the right to maintenance for the period of iddat (about three months) after the divorce, and shifted the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Wakf Board. This amendment was done to over rule a court order which ordered that Shah Bano was entitled to maintenance from her ex-husband under Section 125 of the Criminal Procedure Code (with an upper limit of Rs. 500 a month) like any other Indian woman.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    Whether warning given by Rahul , is there any value? .

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  • David País, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 22 2017

    gau sarkar distorting & twisting da constitution.

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