Cong DNA is marked by nepotism, authoritarianism
Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, June 27: Apparently backing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale’s demand for removal of ‘Socialist’ and ‘Secular’ words from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said that any right-thinking individual will endorse it.
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“I believe any right-thinking citizen will endorse it because everybody knows that these were not part of the original Constitution. It is not the question of BJP versus non-BJP, but it is the question of preserving the democratic values and preserving the Constitutional values,” he said while addressing a press conference, here today on the 50th anniversary of the Emergency.
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Dr Jitendra Singh reiterated that these two words (Socialist and Secular) were incorporated in the Constitution after the 42nd amendment and were not there in the original Constitution written by Dr B R Ambedkar and others.
“Baba Saheb Ambedkar gave us best Constitution in the world. If these terms were not his idea, then whose ideology was it that inserted them?” he asked while raising a question mark on intentions of Congress.
However, in response to another query, the Union Minister refused to say whether the BJP Government will bring any such bill in the upcoming Parliament session to remove these words from the Preamble of the Constitution. “I didn’t say that as I am not accredited to say that, ” he said.
Lashing out at the Congress for the imposition of Emergency, Dr Jitendra Singh termed the infamous Constitutional Amendments of that time as the most “notorious assault” on India’s democratic spirit. “They extended the life of Parliament from 5 to 6 years, introduced the terms secular and socialist opportunistically, and muffled every voice of dissent,” he thundered.
Highlighting how this abuse extended even to Jammu and Kashmir, he said, “The Emergency allowed Congress to misuse Article 370 to extend the J&K Assembly term to six years. The reversal came only in 2019, under the leadership of PM Modi.”
Alleging that the decades old DNA of Congress is marked by nepotism, authoritarianism and suppression of democratic values, Dr Jitendra Singh cautioned that the Emergency may have formally ended, but its mindset still persists in some political quarters.
“The Congress mindset of suppressing truth, glorifying dynasty, and throttling democracy still haunts us. We must remember every stain – not to glorify it, but to remind future generations who betrayed democracy. If we erase the memory of Emergency, we risk inviting its shadows again,” he said.
Dr Jitendra Singh stressed that if we want India’s democratic journey to continue uninterrupted, we must constantly guard against those who disguise dictatorship in the garb of legacy. “The Emergency may be history, but the mindset behind it is a threat that must be defeated – intellectually, politically, and democratically,” he added.
Claiming that the seeds of authoritarian tendencies were sown long before 1975, Dr Jitendra Singh referred to the Congress Presidential elections of 1946, when 12 out of 15 Pradesh Congress Committees had voted for Sardar Patel, but Jawaharlal Nehru was imposed as Prime Minister under Mahatama Gandhi’s pressure.
“This was the first betrayal of democracy – when the popular choice was overruled for dynastic favouritism,” Dr Singh said, quoting Dr Rajendra Prasad who had remarked, “Gandhi has once again sacrificed his trusted lieutenant in favor of glamour.”
In a blistering critique of historical hypocrisy, Dr Jitendra Singh called out the Congress leadership’s glorification of jail-time, pointing out that most leaders were imprisoned post-1933, under far more comfortable conditions than revolutionaries like Veer Savarkar and Comrade Dhanwantri, who endured Kala Pani.
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