New Delhi: Congress on Wednesday came out all guns blazing against Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde's remarks about changing the Indian Constitution. There was a massive uproar in Rajya Sabha against the comment made by the minister earlier this week.

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Leading the attack was Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who slammed Hegde and questioned his right to be a member of Parliament. "If a person has no belief in the Constitution, he has no right to be a member of Parliament," he said on the floor of the house.


 



 


Hegde had stoked controversy during a function in Koppal district of Karnataka when he said that the ruling party would change the Constitution because it has the word 'secular.'  "Seculars do not know what their blood is. Yes, Constitution has given that right to say 'we are secular and we will say it'. Yes, I know but Constitution has been amended many times, we will also amend it. We have come to power for that," the 49-year-old minister had said. "If you say you are a Muslim, Christian etc., I feel proud that you have a connection with your religion and caste, but who are these so-called seculars? Seculars don't have any parentage."


This is not the first time that Hegde has made a controversial remark. Last year, he was booked for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Islam.


In November, he refused to participate in the annual Tipu Jayanti celebration in Karnataka, as BJP, unlike Congress, views the Mysore ruler as a tyrant monarch and considers him of being biased against Hindus.

(With agency inputs)