BJP proposing elimination of Indian Constitution: Rahul Gandhi in Berlin

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the BJP was proposing the “dismantling of the Constitution” that gave equal rights to all and promised to create a system of opposition resistance that would succeed in removing the party from power.

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Speaking at the Hertie School in Berlin last week, he also claimed that the BJP had launched a large-scale offensive and hijacked the country’s institutional framework to help it use it as a tool to build its own political power, and that the opposition was also fighting against it.

In an hour-long video released by the Congress on Monday, December 22, 2025, Mr. Gandhi said India’s largest and most complex democracy is a global entity and the “attack” on the Indian democratic system is also an attack on the global democratic system.

“What the BJP is proposing is essentially the abolition of the Constitution. The abolition of the idea of ​​equality between states, the abolition of the idea of ​​equality between languages ​​and religions, the abolition of the basic idea of ​​the Constitution that every individual will have the same value,” the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha told a group of students at Hertie School.

In the video titled ‘Politics is the art of listening’, Mr Gandhi said that when there is an attack on the democratic system, the Opposition should not just say there is a problem with the elections but should find ways to counter it.

“We will deal with this and create a method of opposition resistance, a method that will be successful. But we are not fighting the BJP. You must understand that we are fighting against their takeover of the institutional structure of India,” he said.

Answering students’ questions, Mr. Gandhi alleged that the institutional framework has been weaponised.

“Fundamentally, we believe that there is a problem with the electoral mechanism in India. Secondly, our institutional framework has been taken over wholesale. There is a large-scale attack on the institutional framework of our country,” he said.

The Congress leader noted that there is an atmosphere in India where institutions are not performing the role they are supposed to play.

Mr. Gandhi said that while Europeans were striving to establish a European Union, India established an economic and political union based on the Constitution in 1947.

“If you are going to have any conversation about democracy on the planet, you cannot ignore the largest and most complex democracy in the world. That is why I say Indian democracy is a global public good; it is not just an asset of India, it is a global asset.

“When I talk about the attack on the Indian democratic system, I do not say this, but in fact it is not just an attack on the Indian democratic system, it is also an attack on the global democratic system,” Mr. Gandhi said.

Attacking the BJP, he claimed that the Congress had made it clear without a shadow of a doubt that they had “won” the Haryana election and said, “Actually, we do not think the Maharashtra election was fair.”

Mr. Gandhi also attacked enforcement agencies like the CBI and ED, saying that although the Congress helped create the institutional framework, it never saw it as its own framework but the country’s.

“But the BJP doesn’t see it that way. They see India’s institutional framework as their own. So they use it as a tool to build political power,” he claimed.

He alleged that the ED and CBI were weaponized. “Looking at the number of cases filed by ED and CBI against BJP members and the opposition, it will be seen that most of them are political cases,” he said.

Mr Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic model.

PM Modi claimed that the BJP and the RSS essentially took Manmohan Singh’s economic models and carried them forward. “What Mr. Modi is trying to do economically cannot go any further… it is stalled,” he claimed.

About the INDIA bloc, he said: “Not all parties of the alliance agree with the core ideology of the RSS… we are quite in agreement on this.”

“We have and will continue to have tactical squabbles. But when it comes to opposition that requires cooperation, this happens every day in Parliament. We are very united and will challenge the BJP on legislation with which we disagree,” Mr. Gandhi added.

The Congress leader was on a trip to Germany last week.

It was published – 23 December 2025 07:47 IST