Emphasising that the new headquarters symbolises the foundations of the Constitution, Gandhi said to his party workers that they are fighting a “civilisational war with these people, they are attacking every day the ideas that we believe in” and asserted that only the Congress can fight them.”It is important that we take ideas from this building and spread these ideas in the rest of the country,” he said.Gandhi also slammed the Election Commission for refusing to provide information about the increase in the number of voters in Maharashtra from Lok Sabha elections to assembly elections.”What purpose does it serve? Why will it damage the EC? Why are they not giving us the list? “It is the duty of the EC to ensure transparency in elections. If there is an increase of one crore in (the number of) voters in Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha in Maharashtra, it is the duty and sacred responsibility of the EC to show us exactly why this has happened. There is a serious problem with our election system,” Gandhi said.Condemning Bhagwat’s statement, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge warned that it would become difficult for him to move around in the country if he continued to make such statements.”You would know that those people who had nothing to do with independence and did not fight for it are making such statements. I read the statement by the RSS chief. He said real independence was established with the inauguration of the Ram Temple. He had inaugurated the temple along with (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi… Modi believes that independence was achieved in 2014 when he became PM,” he said.”RSS people believe that independence was established with Ram Temple inauguration. It is a matter of shame that even though we got independence in 1947 they are not acknowledging it because they did not struggle for it, go to jail, and therefore they do not remember. We remember because our people died for independence and struggled for it,” Kharge said.The Congress leaders statements come after Bhagwat said the date of Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya should be celebrated as “Pratishtha Dwadashi”, as the “true independence” of Bharat, which faced “parachakra” (enemy attack) for several centuries, was established on this day.
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