We used the majority vote to end Art 370, triple talaq: Shah

HM attacks Cong for lies about the constitution

GUWAHATI, April 30:

Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged that the Congress was spreading lies that the BJP plans to amend the country’s Constitution and end reservations if the country comes to power for a third term.

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He also attacked the Congress over the sex scandal surrounding Janata Dal (S) MP Prajwal Revanna and asked why the ruling party of Karnataka did not take action against the accused.
“The Congress is spreading lies about the BJP amending the Constitution and ending reservations… We do not consider voters as minority or majority. The BJP will win 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Assam,” he told a press conference here.
The BJP is in favor of reservations for the SC, ST and OBC and will continue to play a proactive role in protecting their rights, he said, adding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has clarified this in several of his public speeches.
It is the Congress that deprived the SC, ST and OBCs of their rights ‘while giving reservations to Muslims in undivided Andhra Pradesh, and therefore the OBCs were affected. Without conducting any survey, they put all the Muslims in Karnataka in the OBC category and reserved 4 per cent quota for the minorities,” Shah said.
The BJP believes that reservation based on religion is not constitutionally valid and the party will withdraw that religion-based quota after coming to power in those states, the Union Home Minister said.
Referring to the Revanna issue, Shah said the saffron party will not tolerate insult to women in any manner.
“The issue regarding Revanna in the media is very hurtful and cannot be tolerated in any manner,” he said.
Allegations of obscene videos and sexual abuse have been leveled against Revanna, grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, and NDA-JD(S) alliance candidate for the Lok Sabha Hassan constituency, where elections were held on April 26.
Shah said the Congress is claiming that an NDA candidate is involved in the incident, “but I just want to ask a small question: whose government is there in that state (Karnataka)?”
Why the Congress, which is in power in Karnataka, has not taken action on the issue, he asked.
“We cannot take action as law and order is a state issue,” Shah said, adding that the BJP is in favor of an inquiry and JD(S) has also announced that action will be taken against Revanna.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi “is questioning us (on that issue), but I want to tell her that instead of asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi or me, she should ask the chief minister of her party,” he said.
On the arrest of a Congress functionary from Assam on Monday for allegedly circulating a fake video of Shah, the BJP leader said the grand old party’s “frustration and disappointment have reached such a level that it has created and circulated it on social media and even on the ChiefMministers and the heads of the state units have also forwarded it.”
Shah alleged that ever since Rahul Gandhi took over the leadership of the Congress, the political level has been declining and the attempt to create confusion and mislead people is condemnable.
“They should contest elections based on their principles, programs and manifesto and not by spreading a fake video,” he said.
On Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi contesting Amethi and Raebareli respectively, Shah said they are running away from their traditional seats in Uttar Pradesh and “I don’t think they have the courage to fight elections from there.”
“Rahul Gandhi can say whatever he wants after winning the elections, but it all depends on whether they get a chance as people will not give a chance to Congress this time too,” he said.
He claimed that the BJP got a “very good response” from the voters in the southern states.
The senior BJP leader slammed the Congress for practicing the “politics of appeasement since the very beginning”, saying it wants to save “what little is left of their support base”.
“We are in favor of implementing the Uniform Civil Code across the country and ensuring that there is one law for people of all religions,” the Interior Minister said.
In a secular country, it is not right to have laws based on religion and this is against the spirit of the Constitution, Shah said.
The BJP condemns Congress’s promise to bring back Islamic personal law as mentioned in the manifesto, he said.
“Congress, in desperation to win elections, has lost simple logic and announced that civil contracts will be given to minorities. Contracts are given based on the lowest bid, experience and nature of previous work, but if even contracts involve religion, I would like to ask the opposition party if they have any reservations about their president’s post,” he said.
The people of the country gave absolute majorities to the BJP in 2014 and 2019 and for ten years we have used this absolute majority not to impose a state of emergency or to slow down democracy, as the Congress did, but to to end Article 370, triple talaaq, changing archaic British. laws and the Indian legal system, to combat the Corona pandemic and also built the Ram Temple after the Court’s verdict,” Shah said.
Regarding Arvind Kejriwal’s wife’s allegations that her husband is being slowly murdered in jail, the Union Home Minister said the jails are under the Delhi government and “they should worry if their own government kills him, but if I receive a written complaint I will certainly look into it’. (PTI)