New Delhi, April 8 -- A political slugfest ensued after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the Constitution was thousands of years old while addressing a gathering in Bihar on Monday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday slammed the Congress leader for 'always leaving the country shocked and speechless with his abundance of knowledge'.

Speaking at the programme, Rahul Gandhi had said people tell him the Constitution was written in 1947. "But I tell them the Constitution is thousands of years old," the Leader of Opposition had said, maintaining his attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre for undermining constitutional values.

Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said Gandhi insulted Ambedkar, who was chairman of the drafting commi...