‘Will be nothing left in the country for OBCs, Dalits, tribal people’: Rahul Gandhi
‘Will be nothing left in the country for OBCs, Dalits, tribal people’: Rahul Gandhi
M.U.H
27/01/202536
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday, 27 January, accused the BJP and RSS of insulting B.R. Ambedkar and the Constitution framed by him, and urged the party workers to protect it from those in power.
Addressing the "Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan" rally in Mhow, Rahul Gandhi also announced that the Congress will get a nationwide caste census conducted soon after assuming power at the Centre, while alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will never get it done as he is scared of holding one.
Rahul Gandhi also asserted that the Congress will break the wall of 50-per cent reservation and bring a law in this regard in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
Accusing the BJP-led Centre of working for billionaires, he alleged that Dalits, backwards, tribals and the poor are once again being made slaves as employment opportunities are being finished and the country's wealth is being handed over to only a few crony capitalists.
"The BJP and the RSS want a pre-independence like situation in the country where the poor do not have any rights and only the rich have," Rahul Gandhi said.
He also accused the BJP-RSS of attempting to change the Constitution framed by Ambedkar and said that is why they gave the slogan of "400 paar" in last year's Lok Sabha polls.
"The day our Constitution is changed, there will be nothing left in the country for the backwards, Dalits, tribals," Rahul Gandhi said at the rally.
Meanwhile, Congress senior leader Sachin Pilot also accused the BJP at the Centre of deliberately insulting the Constitution's architect B.R. Ambedkar and announced to launch a nationwide campaign with allies.
Pilot was in Mhow near Indore to attend the Congress' "Jai Bapu Jai Bhim Jai Samvidhan" rally.
He accused the BJP at the Centre of deliberately insulting B.R. Ambedkar and violating the Constitution.
"The Congress and its allies will launch a nationwide campaign to make citizens aware of the insult of Ambedkar and the Constitution," he told reporters.
The former Rajasthan deputy chief minister alleged that the BJP-led Union government has weakened Constitutional institutions during the last 10 years.
"They (BJP) worship the Constitution but work against its words. We are going to public with this issue,'' he said.
Pilot said people know what was said about Ambedkar on the floor of Lok Sabha by the BJP government.
"They (BJP) are forced to acknowledge Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi, but history is a witness that the BJP's contribution to the freedom struggle and the country's independence was zero,'' Pilot alleged.
Union Home minister Amit Shah had dismissed Congress' allegations on remarks purportedly made by him on Ambedkar in Parliament as an attempt to twist facts and distort his comments.
