If the ‘Manusmruti’ were to be enforced in the country, 95% of the people would become slaves : Karnataka’s Cong. CM Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru (Karnataka) – If the ‘Manusmriti’ were to be implemented, 95% of the people in the country would become slaves, stated Siddaramaiah, the Chief Minister of the Congress Government in Karnataka. Democracy and Constitution are the best options against the ‘Manusmriti’, he said. “We need to be extremely careful of all those opposed to the Constitution because these are forces that want to bring the Manusmriti back in force by destroying the Constitution,” Siddaramaiah said. He was addressing the event at the Vidhana Soudha, organised to mark the International Day of Democracy and attended by several thousand people. He urged everyone, especially students, to read at least the Preamble to the Constitution and resist any attempt by regressive forces to overrun its principles.

Siddaramaiah invited students not to try to undermine its principles by any opposing forces

“We will survive if democracy survives. Democracy will survive if the Constitution survives. So, it is the duty of every citizen of this country to protect democracy and the Constitution. One of the biggest objectives of the Constitution was yet to be achieved. The freedom we won gave one vote to one person, but that same principle doesn’t apply socially and economically,” he said, citing the socio-economic inequality in the country.

“As long as we fail to understand the principles of the Constitution, and to live by it, it will be extremely difficult to develop a society based on equality in this country. We need to understand the seriousness of this,” the CM stated.