BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said that the Congress’s ‘Save the Constitution’ campaign was meant to save the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and accused the party of a larger conspiracy to “demonise and weaken every institution,” as the Opposition-sponsored motion to impeach the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra was rejected by the Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu.
In a Facebook post, Mr. Shah said the Congress was the moving force behind the motion and it was determined to weaken institutions “which did not kowtow to the dynasty.”
Refers to Loya probe
In an oblique reference to the rejection last week by the Supreme Court of a petition for a probe into the death of judge B.H. Loya, he said “everyone knows” the reasons for which the judiciary “invited the wrath of the Congress [and] the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty,” but he would not go into it.
“Our institutions, which are an outcome of our Constitution, today need to be saved from the onslaught of the Congress. The Congress has spared no institution and is attacking the EC [Election Commission], the Supreme Court [and] the Army for petty political gains.”
“Those who do not trust the Army, the judiciary, the Supreme Court, the Election Commission, EVMs and the RBI are now saying democracy is in danger. ,” he said.
Attacking Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders, Mr. Shah said they were blinded by their disdain for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and were using the “choicest of words and phrases to show India in a bad light.”
Congress’s pattern
He said there was a pattern in the way the Congress was trying to undermine institutions.
The party had launched a tirade against the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) when the country was witnessing a “grand awakening against the corruption” in its government; now, it has targeted the EC by questioning the sanctity of the election process after facing repeated electoral defeats in the last four years.
“Time changes, the context changes, but the means as well as the ends remain the same — discredit any institution that comes in the way of furthering the rule of the dynasty,” he said.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar also spoke about the rejection of the motion of impeachment.
“Congress, suffering from selective amnesia, needs a lesson in Constitution. Honourable Vice-President of India has every authority to take a decision as per Constitution with respect to the petition of impeachment against the honourable CJI Misra. Frustrated Congress of the ‘emergency fame’ imprisoning lakhs of political activists all over India — is trying to dilute all constitutional institutions and Constitution itself now. So, Congress speaking about the constitution is like the ‘Devil quoting the scriptures’,” he said on Twitter.
