Courting another controversy and embarrassing the BJP weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party’s Member of Parliament from Uttara Kannada Anantkumar Hegde has said that voters should give a two-third mandate in the Lok Sabha to the BJP to enable amendments to the Constitution. The BJP, however, distanced itself from his statement.
“The BJP needs a two-thirds majority in both the Houses of Parliament to amend the Constitution and set right distortions and unnecessary additions made to it by the Congress,” he said, addressing a gathering in Karwar on Saturday and explaining the numbers required to amend the preamble of the Constitution. The party would also need to come to power in more than 20 States for this, he said.
