NEW DELHI :
I.N.D.I.A. bloc MPs gathered
in the Parliament complex on
Monday in a show of strength
on the first day of the first
session of the 18th Lok Sabha,
holding copies of the
Constitution and raising slogans on “saving democracy”.
Opposition leaders,
including Congress President
Mallikarjun Kharge, party
leader Rahul Gandhi,
Trinamool Congress’ Sudip Bandyopadhyay, DMK’s TR
Baalu, among others assembled at the spot where the
Gandhi statue once stood in
the Parliament complex.
Former Congress President
Sonia Gandhi also joined the
MPs. Holding copies of the
Constitution in their hands,
they raised slogans such as
“long live Constitution”, “we
will save Constitution”, “save
our democracy”.
Rahul Gandhi said they
would not allow the
Constitution to be“attacked”
by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi and Home Minister
Amit Shah.
“This attack is not acceptable to us and that is why we
held the Constitution and
took oath,” he said.
“Our message is reaching
the public and no power can
touch the Constitution of
India and we will protect it,”
Gandhi added.
Congress leader KC
Venugopal said the I.N.D.I.A.
bloc leaders entered the 18th
Lok Sabha with Mahatma
Gandhi’s blessings.
“The I.N.D.I.A. alliance
enters the 18th Lok Sabha
with Bapu’s blessings and
with a fresh resolve to give
voice to people’s issues, challenges, hopes and aspirations
in Parliament and keep the
Government in check every
single minute,” he said in a
post on X.
NDA LEADERS SLAM
OPPOSITION MPS FOR
‘SAVE CONSTITUTION’
MARCH TO LOK SABHA:
THE NDA leaders criticised
the Opposition MPs for taking out “save Constitution”
march to Lok Sabha on
Monday, saying they should
now consider how to take the
country on the path of
progress ending political
matters as the elections are
over.
This came after the
Opposition’s I.N.D.I.A. bloc
MPs gathered in the
Parliament complex and, in
a show of strength, marched
to Lok Sabha together on the
first day of the first session of
the 18th Lok Sabha raising
slogans to“save Constitution”.
“It was not right to do such
politics, make such comments and create such an
atmosphere on a day when
everyone (newly-elected
MPs) would like to take oath
in a good atmosphere,” TDP
MP and Union Minister
Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu
told PTI when asked to comment