New delhi sources stated that sonia Gandhi’s statement that the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, in rajya sabha marks a “dark day in the Constitutional history of India” is an example of high rhetoric borne out of frustration and defeatism. It is still understandable. Meanwhile after all, a vanquished india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress has just been reminded that it is not only insignificant as an electoral entity in national politics, it is powerless to even organise a coalition to defeat the narendra modi government in house of Elders where the nda does not enjoy numerical superiority.

CAB has just been passed by both Houses of the parliament through due legislative process including robust debates where all issues were discussed threadbare. Unless the india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress president is suggesting that the parliament has ceased to become the voice of people in India’s representative democracy, then her comments lead to only one other interpretation: that she is calling the people who have democratically elected this government (which passed the bill) “narrow minded” and “bigoted”.

These comments are not just contemptuous of people, disrespectful towards their choice and an affront to their collective intelligence, sonia also managed to shift the blame for Congress’s ineptitude on the electorate. It is disingenuous to suggest as india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress has done that the Bill “is not just an affront to the eternal principles of equality and religious non-discrimination that have been enshrined in our Constitution, but represents a rejection of an india that would be a free nation for all her people, irrespective of religion, region, caste, creed, language or ethnicity.”