{"id":255914,"date":"2024-12-15T11:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T05:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=255914"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:04:50","slug":"rahul-on-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rahul-on-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul on the constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Congress MP Rahul Gandhi today launched a critique of the BJP-led government during a debate in the Lok Sabha commemorating 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his speech, Gandhi drew a contrast between the Constitution and the Manusmriti, a religious book, invoking the writings of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Savarkar clearly stated in his writings that there is nothing Indian about our Constitution. Do you stand by your leader&#8217;s words? When you praise the Constitution in Parliament you are ridiculing Savarkar,&#8221; Mr Gandhi said. &#8220;Constitution is a document of modern India but it could never have been written without ancient India, her ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Union Minister Kiren Rijiju accused the Congress of selective appropriation of constitutional values while ignoring its own historical contradictions. Mr Rijiju opened today&#8217;s session with a rebuttal, criticising the Congress for its treatment of Dr BR Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Rahul Gandhi today launched a critique of the BJP-led government during a debate in the Lok Sabha commemorating 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution. During his speech, Gandhi drew a contrast between the Constitution and the Manusmriti, a religious book, invoking the writings of Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar. &#8220;Savarkar clearly stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":255917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[40,305,116484],"class_list":["post-255914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-parliament","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-rahul-on-the-constitution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/rahul.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255918,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255914\/revisions\/255918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}