Stating that the President should be an impartial custodian of the Constitution, the combined Opposition Presidential candidate and former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday pledged to be answerable to the Constitution even as he challenged the ruling party candidate Droupadi Murmu to take a similar vow.
“The President should not be a silent rubber stamp. I pledge to be answerable to the Constitution and restrain the Union government if it aids and abets outrageously undemocratic practices such as Operation Kamala that has been used to destabilise Opposition governments in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and several other States,” he told reporters here on Sunday.
He met the Congress leaders and legislators seeking support to his campaign during the Congress Legislative Party meeting. Among those present included Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Siddaramaiah, Leader of the Opposition in the Council B.K. Hariprasad, and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar.
