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JD flays BJP's constitutional review

The Janata Dal on Tuesday assailed the Bharatiya Janata Party's proposal to introduce the Presidential form of government, saying it had no moral right to tinker with the Constitution.

Reacting to Home Minister L K Advani's statement that the Constitution needed a revamp, Dal spokesman Mohan Prakash said his party would wage a relentless struggle against any bid to bring about radical changes in the democratic set-up which was conceived by Mahatma Gandhi and the nation's founding fathers.

The JD leader said the country was being run on values espoused by the freedom-fighters, and the parliamentary form was a result of that long-drawn battle.

Mohan Prakash said the BJP was influenced by American patterns in various fields, and Advani's assertions at that party's national executive meet in Gandhinagar was a manifestation of such an approach.

He said the BJP was trying to rob the people of their democratic rights and transfer power to an individual, to suit its long-term political interests.

UNI

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