‘Save Constitution Campaign’: Congress launches 100-day programme, invites volunteers

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday launched the 100-day ‘Samvidhan Rakshak Campaign’ to enrol people as protectors of the Constitution, who will work to protect the Constitution at all costs. This campaign will conclude on November 26, 2024, to coincide with 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution of India.

Launching the campaign here, senior Congress leader and treasurer Ajay Maken, along with the Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav and chairman of the SC department of the AICC, Rajesh Lilothia, said that the campaign will cover all the seventy Assembly segments in Delhi.

Threats to Constitution

Maken said, the challenges and threats to the Constitution were still prevailing as the same people were in power who wanted to change the Constitution before the elections.

Maken pointed out that India was the only country in the region, which was strong and stable while all others were facing turmoil and unrest. He observed that India succeeded as a democracy just because of the Constitution.

Maken said, as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had committed during his campaign that the party would ensure to defend and protect the Constitution at all costs, the campaign was being launched all across the country.

Constitution Protection Volunteers

Maken said, that so far three lakh ‘Constitution Protection Volunteers’ had enrolled themselves. He said, the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and he himself had also enrolled as the Constitution Protection Volunteers.

Giving further details of the campaign, chairman of the SC department of the AICC Rajesh Lilothia said that the same forces who had opposed the Constitution while it was being drafted and had even burnt its copies were in power today. He said there was a continuous threat to the Constitution.

Lilothia said that the campaign will be extended across the country to every village. He said, two Constitution Protection Volunteers, one male and one female, will be identified in every village who will be trained for the purpose.

He said the campaign in Delhi will conclude on November 26 with a massive programme in Talkatora Stadium. This will also mark 75 years since the adoption of the Constitution.

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav said, the campaign was being launched at the right time since the forces who wanted to change it were still in power and the threat to the Constitution was very much there.

With inputs from PTI