India, Sept. 24 -- Ahead of the latest session of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Bihar on Wednesday, the party made a shoutout to the year 1940. It wasn't just flexing how old it is. But the message was for the now - tying into its ongoing narrative that the Constitution is "in danger".

But why 1940 specifically, you'd wonder.

In a landmark session in 1940 in undivided Bihar, seven years before Independence, the Congress committed to forming a Constituent Assembly that eventually wrote the Constitution of India. Current Congress leaders stressed how the party remains committed to country's core lawbook since then, and how its opponents allegedly don't.

Congress comms in-charge Jairam Ramesh posted on X: "It was at its Ramgarh ...