Congress leader Rahul Gandhi needs to make it clear on his party's South Goa Lok Sabha candidate Viriato Fernandes' remark about the Indian Constitution having been forced upon Goa after it was liberated from the Portuguese in 1961, Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Vinod Tawde said on Thursday.
While leaders of Congress in Goa are saying the Constitution must be changed, its chief Mallikarjun Kharge is claiming BJP will change the Constitution if it wins more than 400 Lok Sabha seats, Tawde said..
“The BJP released its manifesto on April 14 on the birth anniversary Babasaheb Ambedkar. Since the opposition has nothing to speak against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they are making such statements,” he said referring to Kharge’s comment.
“I want Rahul Gandhi to come out in public and comment on the statement made Congress candidate in Goa about the Constitution,” he added.
Slamming the Congress over the issue of inheritance tax, the BJP leader said the money taken by the government in this manner will get distributed to “those whom (former PM) Manmohan Singh had mentioned, an apparent reference to the Muslim community”.
Senior Congressman Yuri Alemao, the Leader of Opposition in the Goa Assembly, responded to Tawde's news conference by stating that his party will change the 10th Schedule of the Constitution if it were to win power in order to immediately remove MPs and lawmakers who switch parties.
“Tawde is worried because of this commitment of the Congress party. We don’t want lessons on the Constitution from those who murdered it and engineered mass defections,” Alemao said.
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