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Srinivas Prasad dubs Constitutional awareness jatha as a ‘Congress gimmick’

Chamarajanagar MP and former Minister V. Srinivas Prasad said here on Thursday that the Constitutional awareness jatha was a Congress jatha and had nothing to do with Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.

Speaking to media persons Mr. Prasad said it was a jatha to foro the image building of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Social Welfare Minister H.C. Mahadevappa. He refuted suggestions that the Constitution was in danger as claimed by the opposition and said that it was Congress which was in danger. It is a gimmick to garner votes, he added.

Mr. Prasad accused the Congress of indulging in politics in the name of Constitution and reiterated that there was no threat to it.

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