BARMER: In a robust rebuttal to the opposition‘s repeated accusations that BJP was looking for a large mandate of 400-plus seats as a result of it wished to destroy the Constitution, PM Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the Constitution was sacred for his government. It was the successive Congress governments that had subverted the Constitution with their actions, he alleged.
“As far because the Constitution is anxious, even when Babasaheb Ambedkar himself comes, he can’t abolish it. The Constitution is Gita, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Bible and Quran for govt,” PM stated at a rally in Barmer.
Accusing INDIA bloc of “telling lies in the name of the Constitution”, Modi stated: “Congress, which discriminated against SCs, STs and OBCs for decades, made Babasaheb lose elections, did not give him Bharat Ratna and tried to abolish the Constitution by imposing Emergency in country, is taking cover of the Constitution to abuse Modi.”
BJP candidate Kailash Chaudhary is locked in a triangular contest in Barmer, with Congress’s Ummedaram Beniwal and Independent MLA Ravindra Singh Bhati being the opposite two within the fray.
In a veiled reference to the CPM manifesto, Modi stated a celebration within the INDIA bloc had referred to as for nuclear disarmament. “Should a country like India, whose neighbours on both sides have nuclear weapons, think about eliminating nuclear weapons? I want to ask Congress, on whose instructions is your INDI alliance working? On whose pressure does your alliance want to take such steps?” he requested.