Congress President’s new weapon to attack Modi
The provocation was the amendment of Rule 93(2)(a) of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 by the Union Law Ministry. This amendment has restricted the type of “papers” or documents that were earlier open to public inspection.
This, according to Kharge, is Modi Government’s “systematic conspiracy” to destroy the integrity of the institution, the Election Commission. And, therefore, Kharge says that it is a frontal attack on the Constitution and Democracy.
Like the British King Henry VIII, who was granted the title ‘Defender of Faith’ by Pope Leo X (1521) for his defence of the Catholic Church against the threat of protestants, Kharge seems to have become the ‘Defender of Constitution’ against the alleged threat to Constitution by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
However, when the Papacy refused to oblige Henry VIII to divorce his first wife and remarry, he turned against the Catholic Church and created the Church of England independent of the Papacy. Can we see a similar drama being played out in the Congress party now held captive by the dynasty? Time will tell, but we see the straws in the wind of such possibility. Already the I.N.D.I.A Block, led by Congress with Rahul Gandhi as Leader of the Opposition (LoP), has shown its disenchantment with the LoP. They have keenly observed his poor and childish performance in the Parliament and outside.
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