Touching Constitution to forehead is pretense when your govts violating it: Rahul's dig at PM
UP encounter
New Delhi, Sep 7: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the police encounter of a man involved in robbery in Uttar Pradesh's Sultanpur, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha on Saturday said that touching the Constitution to the forehead in front of the cameras is just a pretense "when your governments are openly violating it".
Gandhi demanded that all suspicious encounters in Uttar Pradesh should be investigated impartially.
Mangesh Yadav, a wanted criminal involved in a robbery worth Rs 1.5 crore at a jewellery store in Sultanpur, was killed in an encounter with the police early Thursday, officials said. Yadav was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest.
According to police, Yadav was killed in the encounter with the Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police in Mishirpur Puraini village.
In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi alleged that in BJP-ruled states, the very people who are responsible for implementing the law and Constitution are violating them.
The encounter of Mangesh Yadav in Sultanpur has once again proved that the BJP does not believe in the rule of law, he said.
"The tears of Mangesh's family are asking the whole country a question - who will live and who will not, will the court or the police decide this?" the former Congress chief said.
"A professional force like the STF is being run like a 'criminal gang' under the BJP government and the silence of the Central government on this is their clear consent to this 'Thoko Niti'," Gandhi said.
Dozens of encounters of the UP STF are under question, he said.
"Has any action been taken against any of those officers till date? Who is protecting them and why?" he asked.
"Touching the Constitution to the forehead in front of the cameras is just a pretense when your governments are openly violating it," Gandhi said.
All the suspicious encounters in Uttar Pradesh should be investigated impartially and justice should be done, he said, adding that "blood stains on the uniform must be cleaned".
Days after the Lok Sabha election results were announced, a meeting of the newly elected MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA alliance was held at Parliament to decide the leader of the coalition. Upon his arrival, Prime Minister Modi paid respect to the Constitution of India by touching the book to his forehead.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
