Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge launched a blistering attack on the BJP leaders, terming them as "dwellers of hell" who did nothing for India's independence.
Addressing Congress workers after unfurling the national flag at the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office in Bengaluru on the 76th Republic Day, Kharge said it was the grand old party that made India an independent country and is striving for its unity.
Kharge lashed out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his recent controversial remarks on Constitution framer B.R. Ambedkar and said the BJP government at the Centre was dumping all the constitutional values.
"The painful matter is that recently our important leaders, especially Union Home Minister Amit Shah, insulted the Constitution. Amit Shah passed nasty comments on the architect of the Indian Constitution," he said.
In a recent speech in Rajya Sabha, Shah had taken a swipe at the opposition for constantly taking the name of Ambedkar, saying had they chanted the name of God, they would have secured a place in heaven.
"These dwellers of hell were unable to get us independence and did not do any good work for the country, from the economic and social point of view," Kharge said.
Mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement of making India the third major economy in the world, saying the country's position had not gone beyond the fifth place during the BJP rule.
The Congress-led UPA had made the country the fourth major economy while the BJP brought it down to the fifth position, he said.
