Congress has given an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde's remarks about the constitution. Mr Hegde is in the centre of another controversy after he said that his party, the ruling BJP, will "soon change the Constitution," which mentions the word "secular". He attacked what he called a "new fad where people project themselves as secular".

The 49-year-old minister was speaking at a function in Kukanur of Koppal district in Karnataka when he urged people to "claim with pride that they are Muslim, Christian, Lingayat, Brahmin, or a Hindu," adding, "Those who, without knowing about their parental blood, call themselves secular, they don't have their own identity...They don't know about their parentage, but they are intellectuals."

He has also said, "Some people say the Constitution says secular and you must accept it. We will respect the Constitution, but the Constitution has changed several times and it will change in the future too. We are here to change the Constitution and we'll change it."