NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Anurag Thakur on Saturday targeted the leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and said he lacks basic knowledge about the Indian Constitution.
“Those who wave the copy of constitution, don’t even know how many pages are there in the Indian constitution,” Anurag Thakur said in Lok Sabha.
Speaking during a debate on 75 years of the adoption of the Indian Constitution, the BJP MP said, “You (the Congress) never read the Constitution. It was the power of the Constitution that forced Indira Gandhi to withdraw Emergency.”
Replying to Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Eklavya ka angootha’ jibe, Anurag Thakur said, “Ye jo angootha kaatne ki baat karte hai inhone Sikhon ke gale kaatne ka kaam kia tha (It is during the Congress rule that the throats of Sikhs were cut). “They talk about Sikh rights? The maximum amount of Sikhs were beheaded in the Congress’s era,” the Hamirpur MP further said.
Anurag Thakur criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for misrepresenting the Constitution, saying, “The Constitution was what brought an end to the Emergency imposed in 1975.”
Earlier, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi criticized the central government, accusing it of “cutting off” the youth’s thumb by “handing over” various sectors to industrialists.