For Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of a collapsing Congress party, to declare that the BJP and RSS have “no respect for the Constitution” is not only ridiculous — it is laughable. A party that has spent decades twisting, tinkering, diluting, and weaponizing the Constitution for vote-bank politics now wants to lecture the nation on constitutional morality? The irony is so thick that even history refuses to swallow it.
Let’s begin with the basic question the Congress never wants young Indians to ask: How original is the Indian Constitution?
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar chaired the Drafting Committee. But the document that finally emerged was hardly allowed to remain a pristine reflection of his vision. Within a few years of Independence, the Congress leadership — particularly the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty — began treating the Constitution as malleable clay to suit their political ambitions. More than a hundred amendments have been pushed through, many driven not by national interest but by naked appeasement, cynical electoral calculations, and the obsessive desire to preserve the dynasty’s hold over power.
I have said this many times, and I will repeat it with greater force today: the Indian Constitution bears far more imprint of the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty’s ideological preferences than of Ambedkar’s unfiltered vision. And it is this uncomfortable truth that Congress leaders, especially someone like Mallikarjun Kharge, refuse to acknowledge.
Kharge’s hypocrisy becomes even more astonishing when he pretends to be the sole custodian of Ambedkar’s legacy. Has he forgotten that it was Jawaharlal Nehru himself who insulted Ambedkar, humiliated him in Parliament, and even vowed not to see his face again? Has he forgotten that it was the Congress that consistently sidelined Ambedkar, denied him due recognition, and only woke up to his legacy decades later — when Dalit votes became politically valuable?
If Kharge truly respects Ambedkar, he should also publicly acknowledge that it was not the Congress but the RSS and the Jana Sangh (later BJP) that supported Ambedkar’s entry into the Rajya Sabha. This is not mythology — this is documented historical fact. But speaking truth has never been a Congress habit; distortion, however, has been their political oxygen.
And now, a Dalit leader like Kharge, occupying the artificial throne of a party that once despised Ambedkar, wants the nation to believe that the RSS is “anti-Constitution.” Nothing could be more farcical.
This is the same Congress that banned the RSS, not once but repeatedly, each time without evidence, each time using state machinery to settle political scores. This is the same Congress that has, for decades, propagated the brazen lie that Nathuram Godse had ties with the RSS — a claim exposed repeatedly by courts and commissions. But the Congress, addicted to falsehoods, continues to spread this narrative solely to divide Hindus and preserve its evaporating vote bank.
And what about Godse himself? Kharge conveniently ignores that Godse was no stranger to the sacrifices of the freedom struggle. He spent years under brutal British punishment in the Andaman cellular jail — a fact the Congress ecosystem loves to brush under the carpet because it punctures their manufactured narrative.
But the biggest question young Indians must ask is this: Who actually damaged the Constitution? Was it the RSS, which had no political power for decades? Or was it the Congress, which amended, twisted, and mutilated the document to carve out islands of appeasement, minorityism, and dynastic entitlement?
From diluting federalism to weaponizing Article 356, from weakening institutions to institutionalising vote-bank politics, from suffocating free speech to strengthening draconian powers during the Emergency — every major constitutional distortion bears the Congress stamp, not the RSS’s.
So, when Mallikarjun Kharge sermonises about “protecting the Constitution,” he is not defending Ambedkar’s masterpiece; he is defending the Nehru–Gandhi dynasty’s political blueprint.
The truth is simple: the RSS respects the Constitution far more than the Congress has ever done. The difference is that the RSS sees it as a nation-building document, while the Congress sees it as a political toolkit.
Kharge’s latest statement is not just misleading — it is a disservice to the nation, an assault on historical truth, and an insult to Ambedkar himself.
And the Congress wonders why India no longer takes it seriously.
