Claim

During Congress rule, the Constitution was amended a total of 62 times.

“कांग्रेस के शासन में कुल 62 बार संविधान बदला गया।”

Rationale

The specific figure of 62 does not match documented counts. India's Constitution has been amended 106 times, and standard tallies attribute roughly 76-77 amendments to Congress or Congress-led governments (The Week's count: 76; Amit Shah in Parliament: 77; some BJP sources say 80+). The broader point that Congress governments enacted the majority of amendments is true, but the stated total of 62 understates the widely accepted figure by about 15 and does not correspond to any standard counting method; no major fact-checker validates 62. The number appears in older political social-media posts but is not supported by the amendment record as of the broadcast date.

Evidence

• https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2024/11/27/who-changed-the-indian-constitution-samvidhan-divas.html Analysis based on Vikas Puttur's book counts 76 amendments under Congress governments and 31 under non-Congress governments, out of 106 total amendments. ✓ reachable · archived
• https://www.business-standard.com/politics/amit-shah-congress-bjp-constitutional-amendments-debate-124121800349_1.html In the December 2024 Rajya Sabha Constitution debate, Home Minister Amit Shah stated Congress amended the Constitution 77 times in 55 years of rule versus 22 by BJP in 16 years — the figure most commonly cited in political debate. ✗ unreachable · HTTP 403
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_of_the_Constitution_of_India Official list of all constitutional amendments (106 as of the broadcast date), from which per-government tallies of roughly 75-80 under Congress-led governments are derived. ✓ reachable · archived