LUCKNOW: Leaders of various parties in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday traded barbs on Constitution Day, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath accusing the Congress of tampering with the Preamble and “strangling” the Constitution while SP chief Akhilesh Yadav hit out at the BJP for undermining constitutional values.
Adityanath also argued that the original Constitution, drafted by the B R Ambedkar-led panel on November 26, 1949, did not include the words “secular” or “socialist.”
Alleging that the Congress added these terms during the Emergency period, he said, “The people have delivered a fitting lesson to those who betrayed the Constitution.”
