Congress leaders, together with Party president Rahul Gandhi & Gulam Nabi Azad, protest in front of Gandhi status inside Parliament premises over Ananth Kumar Hegde's remarks on the constitution.

on the subject of the logjam in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha due to my statement, I want to assure my friends that “constitution is supreme to me, Parliament is supreme to me” says  Ananth Kumar Hegde, Union Minister on his earlier statement over his remark on the constitution.

Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge objected to Ananth Kumar Hegde’s clarification, following which Hegde said, ‘If anyone was hurt by my statements I tender an apology.”

Gandhi ‘s scion said the Congress Party was mutually responsible for getting independence to the nation, as well as in drafting the Constitution that bestow equal rights to all citizens, but that it has come on the direct attack by the ruling saffron  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Calling attention to on the central idea of the Congress being the desirable quality of truth, Rahul Gandhi said the party "accepts the truth, works with the truth."

After delivering his address in the ceremony, the Congress president also distributed sweets among children at the headquarters.

The Congress Party was established on December 28, 1885.

Earlier this month, Rahul Gandhi elected as uncontested president by taking over his mother, Sonia Gandhi to carrieoperations of the reins of the grand old party. (NT)