Attack by PM Modi and Shah on Constitution is not acceptable : Rahul Gandhi

When journalists asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about this outside the Parliament, he responded by taking PM Modi and Amit Shah to task. He said, "The way Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are attacking the Constitution is not acceptable to us, so we are holding the Constitution while taking oath."

When Rahul Gandhi was asked if he wanted to give any message by doing this, he said that it is definitely a message. “No power can touch the Constitution of India. For us, the Constitution of India is everything and whoever attacks it, we will not spare him”,Rahul Gandhi said.Rahul also showed the book of the Constitution to the journalists and said that see, this is everything for us.

Congress member K. Suresh, DMK's TR Balu and Trinamool Congress's Sudip Bandopadhyay have also been elected in the panel of presiding chairmn along with Singh and Kulaste but they did not take oath. Congress has objected to the election of Mahtab as Pro tem Speaker. The opposition party says that its eight-time member Suresh has been overlooked for election to this post. The opposition coalition 'Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance' ('INDIA') says that its members Suresh, Balu and Bandopadhyay will not join the panel as a protest.