Congress leaders write to Police Commissioner over PMO’s advertisement

Congress party leaders from Mumbai on Saturday submitted a written complaint to the Commissioner of Mumbai police Ahmed Javed against the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of India for allegedly advertising a wrong Preamble of our Constitution in newspaper advertisements on Constitution Day.

Congress party leaders said that India’s Preamble to the Constitution that was published on November 26 in the Lokmat newspaper edition with the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and late Bharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was the old Preamble.

According to the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Raju Waghmare “It is important to investigate the matter and to bring culprits to the task. It is an arbitrary act done with the intention to create a panic situation among the people of the country. Therefore, the police should take action against the people who are responsible for it. As a prevention of insults to national honor act 1971, it is an offence to insult deface, defile, disfigure, etc any copy or copy of any part of the Constitution of the India and this is punishable with imprisonment or fine or both.”

The party leader added, “In its advertisement which was published on 26 January, the government quotes the Preamble of India’s Constitution as “We the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Democratic Republic... it is different than the real version that was declared after the 42nd amendment.”