RSS carrying out assault on Constitution: Congress

The Congress on Tuesday accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of carrying out a “ferocious assault” on Dr BR Ambedkar and the Constitution since its adoption in 1949, marking the 76th anniversary of the Constituent Assembly’s decision to formally adopt the draft Constitution.

Jairam Ramesh, Congress general secretary in-charge of communications, invoked the historic moment from November 1948, noting that “today, exactly 76 years ago, Dr Ambedkar moved the resolution in the Constituent Assembly for the formal adoption of the Draft Constitution of India.”

He said on X that “Ambedkar’s closing speech on that occasion is undoubtedly one of the greatest ever made by anybody anywhere in the 20th century.”

Ramesh also highlighted Ambedkar’s praise for the Congress during the drafting process. Quoting from the speech, he recalled: “The task of the Drafting Committee would have been a very difficult one if this Constituent Assembly had been merely a motley crowd, a tessellated pavement without cement, a black stone here and a white stone there in which each member or each group was a law unto itself. There would have been nothing but chaos.”