Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of using every trick in its textbook to crush and curtail freedoms enshrined in the Constitution, reported news agency ANI.

Taking to X, the Congress President said that the dissent is being subjugated and criminalised, and the institutions are being pushed to the brink of 'becoming pawns in the grand game of imposing an authoritarian system' during the BJP regime.