Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP has ridiculed Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Congress state president D. K. Shivakumar’s claim that the Gandhi family “sacrificed their lives for the country” and “gave Indians the Constitution, democracy and the national flag,” terming it the “joke of the decade.”
State BJP Chief Spokesperson and Media In-charge N. V. Subash said Shivakumar’s statements expose either his ignorance of history or his blind loyalty to the Gandhi family in order to safeguard his political ambitions.
“Shivakumar says the Gandhis gave India the Constitution. I pity his ignorance. His own party calls it Ambedkar’s Constitution, yet history records that it was Jawaharlal Nehru who conspired to keep Dr. B. R. Ambedkar out of Parliament. Is this what the Congress calls sacrifice?” Subash asked.
He further reminded Shivakumar that Nehru was not the unanimous choice for India’s first Prime Minister. “The majority of Congress’s own provincial committees voted for Sardar Patel, but it was Gandhi’s intervention that imposed Nehru on the country. If this is democracy, what is dictatorship?”
On the claim that the Gandhi family sacrificed for the nation, Subash retorted that the opposite was true. “Indira Gandhi amended the Constitution more than a hundred times, imposed the Emergency, and used President’s Rule repeatedly to silence Opposition-ruled states. Is that sacrifice—or a lust for power?”
As for the national flag, Subash reminded Shivakumar of its true history. “The tricolour was not a Congress gift. It was designed by Pingali Venkayya, a proud Telugu from Andhra Pradesh. The Nehru cabinet merely accepted it. To distort facts and attribute it to the Gandhi family is an insult to our freedom fighters.”
Subash concluded that Shivakumar’s statements were a desperate attempt to impress the Gandhi family as he eyes the chief minister’s chair in Karnataka. “He may continue his sycophancy, but even he knows in his heart that history will not be rewritten to glorify the Gandhis. The people of India have already rejected these falsehoods, and the BJP will continue to expose them.”
