NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur on Saturday targeted leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, saying he lacks basic knowledge about the Constitution. “Some people carry the Constitution, but cannot tell how many pages it has because they have never opened it,” the Hamirpur MP said in the House.
He also cited senior Supreme Court advocate Gopal Shankar Narayan‘s preface in a book, which praises the Constitution’s creation by the “finest and most emancipated minds of the time” like BR Ambedkar, and noted that the Constitution was not influenced by “Nehruvian thinking”.
“If Mr. Gandhi reads the Constitution, he will know all about his family and Congress’ misdeeds,” Thakur said, adding, “They make fabricated claims about cutting the thumbs of the deprived (a metaphor to suggest suppression of rights of the deprived), but in their rule Sikhs’ necks were sliced. They were massacred. Congress should apologise for that.”