India, Oct. 19 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday rejected the BJP's charge that the Opposition was seeking to bring about "regime change" in India, saying its demand was for free and fair elections and that the issue was constitutional, not an attempt to topple the government.

Responding to Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju's remarks, Tharoor said comparisons between India, Bangladesh and France were not relevant. He also distanced the Opposition from the violence witnessed in France, stressing that it believed in peaceful protests.

"I think that India is not Bangladesh and India is not France. I don't see these analogies as particularly relevant," Tharoor said in Thiruvananthapuram.

"We would never condone any of...