Cong is playing with fire, risking Hindu & Muslim divide: Rajnath
One election, UCC will be implement in BJP’s third term
New Delhi, May 5: Rahul Gandhi has “no fire but the Congress is playing with fire” by attempting to create a Hindu-Muslim divide for electoral gains, defence minister Rajnath Singh said here even as he asserted that the NDA will cross the 400-seat mark in the Lok Sabha polls and the BJP will improve its tally in most of the states.
In a free-wheeling interview to PTI, Mr Singh also indicated that the BJP will implement its bigticket plans like rolling out of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and the “One Nation One Election” push in its third consecutive term.
The defence minister, who has been vigorously campaigning across the country, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi does not have the fire in his belly to put up a spirited fight in the polls.
Mr Singh also said that the BJP government will never change the Constitution Rajnath or end reservations,
Singh and accused the Congress of creating “fear psychosis” and resorting to spreading misinformation for “votebank” politics.
The defence minister blasted Congress for spreading “canards” that the BJP will change the Constitution if it returns to power and especially stressed that there was no question of changing the Preamble of the Constitution.
His assurance that the Preamble will not be changed addresses concerns among critics that the word “secular” to describe India could be removed by the BJP if it retains power.
Mr Gandhi has been alleging that the BJP will “tear up and throw away” the Constitution if it retains power. Some other Congress functionaries had expressed apprehensions that the BJP may drop the word “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution.
“The Congress brought constitutional amendments 80 times. They changed the Preamble during Emergency,” the defence minister said.
“The BJP will never change the Constitution. Constitution-makers never imagined that there would be changes in the Preamble. You (Congress) only acted to hurt the core idea of the Constitution,” he said.