By Rahil Nora Chopra
The Congress has in its manifesto “Save the Constitution” as one of its key poll planks after a senior BJP leader and Uttara Kannada BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde urged voters to give a two-thirds majority to his party to rewrite the Constitution. Congress warned the people to beware of the BJP and made a special request to Dalits and tribals to refrain from hobnobbing with the BJP in the coming elections, launching a hashtag on twitter ‘Save Constitution, Remove BJP’. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah alleged that Hegde’s statement “exposed the ulterior motives of the BJP to replace Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s version of the Constitution with their own, influenced by the Manusmriti”. On the other hand, the BJP on March 10 distanced itself from the remarks made by Hegde and sought an explanation from him.
