India, Oct. 19 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday rejected the BJP's charge that the Opposition was seeking "regime change" similar to Bangladesh and France, while asserting that they wanted to address a "constitutional issue."

"I think that India is not Bangladesh and India is not France. I don't see these analogies as particularly relevant..." Tharoor said, adding that the Opposition had been calling for "free and fair elections".

The Thiruvananthapuram MP further said that the Opposition believes in "peaceful protest". ".. We would never condone any of the violence, setting alight buses and police stations and so on, that has occurred in France. We only believe in peaceful protest... that's the kind of protest that I have partic...