Punjab Congress chief Raja Warring cautions people against BJP’s divisive agenda

Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today alleged that the RSS and the BJP were trying to undermine the Constitution of the country as the RSS leaders had never accepted it. He also warned against their designs to divide the country along communal lines. Addressing the ‘Samvidhan Bachao Sabha’ (Save Constitution Meeting) here today, organised by the local party MLA Balwinder Dhaliwal, Warring asserted that the Congress party will not allow anyone even to touch the Constitution, leave aside changing it.

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The PCC president noted, while displaying a copy of the Constitution, that it was because of the Constitution of the country that there was freedom and equality in the country. Otherwise, he pointed out, people had no freedom, no voice and no rights. He quoted a former RSS chief MS Golwalkar as having written in his book that he did not accept the Constitution of the country. He said that for a long time, the RSS had not even accepted the national tricolour. Warring alleged that it was Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who had launched the ‘Save Constitution’ campaign and warned people of the country against the BJP’s designs. He said the BJP’s slogan of winning ‘400 plus’ seats was aimed at changing the Constitution. “But people of the country taught them a lesson by restricting them to 240 seats,” he observed, pointing out how Prime Minister Modi had to bow before the Constitution after taking over for his third term.

The PCC president was critical of the state government, saying it had failed on all fronts. He referred to the government’s much touted war on drugs, ‘Yudh Nashyan Virudh’. He asked the AAP government to spell out what was status of ‘war on drugs’ was, whether the drugs had really been wiped out from the state by May 31, the deadline set by AAP government.

Prominent among those present on the occasion included senior party leader and Amritsar MP Gurjeet Aujla, Bholath MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, former MLAs Navtej Cheema and Pawan Adhia and others.