Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge also accused the BJP of insulting Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar by using a word like “murder” with the “sacred word Constitution”.

The Congress on Friday slammed the government’s move to declare June 25, the day the Emergency was declared in 1975, as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ as yet another “headline grabbing exercise in hypocrisy” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Taking a swipe at the government over the decision, the opposition party said that from now on, the people of India will observe “Aajivika Hatya Diwas” on November 8, the day demonetisation was announced in 2016.

In a post in Hindi on X, he said, “Narendra Modi ji, in the last 10 years, your government has marked ‘Samvidhan Hatya Diwas’ everyday. You have snatched self-respect from every poor and deprived section of the country every moment.” “When a BJP leader urinates on tribals in Madhya Pradesh, or when the police forcibly cremate the Dalit daughter of Hathras in UP, then what else is that if not the murder of the Constitution?” Kharge said.