SITHARAMAN RENEWS ATTACK ON CONG, NEHRU

Congress' record of curtailing freedom of speech didn't confine with jailing of Majnu Sultanpuri and Balraj Sahani -Nirmala Sitharaman Finance minister

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Imitating the debate on the Constitution in the upper house, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a scathing attack on former Congress leaders, including Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi and said that the Constitutional amendments that they brought were not about strengthening democracy but protecting those in power.

Sitharaman asserted that post Second World War, over 50 countries had become independent and had their Constitution written but many have changed their entire feature but India's Constitution stood the test of times.

"India's experience has shown that a constitution remains robust yielding to several amendments which were the need of the hour. I would like to talk about the first Constitutional Amendment Act of 1951. There was an interim government between August 15, 1947, and it lasted till April 1952, post which an elected government took over the charge.