New Delhi: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inside addressing MPs on the occasion of Constitution Day, the opposition boycotted the joint session of parliament and protested near Ambedkar statue.
Opposition parties led by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi staged a protest against the political situation in Maharashtra. The participants were carrying posters that said “Stop Murder of Democracy” and “Constitution in Crisis”.
Mrs Sonia Gandhi read out the Preamble to the Constitution. She was accompanied by several senior Congress leaders including her son and former President Rahul Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ghulam Nabi Azad, AK Antony, DMK’s TR Baalu, the Trinamool Congress’s Saugata Roy and the NCP’s Majeed Memon. Significantly Shiv Sena leader Arvind Sawant, who resigned from Union Cabinet earlier this month, also joined the protest.
According to ANI, Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP from Kerala said that his party was “protesting against the government which is violating the Constitution one side and celebrating it on the other”.