‘The CAB is an attack on the Indian constitution. Anyone who supports it is attacking and attempting to destroy the foundation of our nation,’ Rahul Gandhi
NEW DELHI| On Tuesday hours after the Citizenship Amendment Bill passes in lower house Congress MP Rahul Gandhi criticized the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill as a move that would “destroy the foundation” of India.
Rahul Gandhi gave his reaction through his twitter handle stating, “The #CAB is an attack on the Indian constitution. Anyone who supports it is attacking and attempting to destroy the foundation of our nation”.
The #CAB is an attack on the Indian constitution. Anyone who supports it is attacking and attempting to destroy the foundation of our nation.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 10, 2019
Priyanka Gandhi also slammed Centre over the Citizenship Amendment Bill. She tweeted saying our forefathers gave their lifeblood for our freedom and rights. We will fight against this government for destroying our Constitution.
Our constitution, our citizenship, our dreams of a strong and unified India belong to ALL of us.
We will fight against this government’s agenda to systematically destroy our constitution and undo the fundamental premise on which our country was built with all our might.
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) December 10, 2019
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P. Chidambaram said CAB itself and passing CAB is unconstitutional. Elected parliamentarians are abdicating their responsibilities in favor of lawyers and Judges.
CAB is unconstitutional. Parliament passes a Bill that is patently unconstitutional and the battle ground shifts to the Supreme Court.
Elected Parliamentarians are abdicating their responsibilities in favour of lawyers and judges!
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) December 10, 2019
He further added the price we are paying by giving the majority votes and power to use to trample over the wishes of the states and the people.
That is the price we pay for giving a party a brute majority that it uses to trample over the wishes of the States and the People.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) December 10, 2019
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