The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
Modi govt will never touch policy on quota or let anyone do it: Shah
UNION HOME Minister Amit Shah Friday made it clear that the Narendra Modi government will never touch the reservation policy or let anyone else do it.
The home minister also dismissedspeculationsregardingthe government planning to amend the Constitution. “If we had to changetheconstitution,wecould have done it earlier,” he said.
"We will never touch the policy of reservation or let anyone else do it," he told NDTV in an interview. Shah said the Bjp-led Ndagovernmenthasnotmisused the majority it has in Parliament. “We have not misused the majority we have had for ten years. The Congress has the habit of misusing majority, not us,” he said.
Shah said there has been no change in the BJP’S commitments and highlighted that the Women’s Reservation Act and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) were brought by the Modi government.
He said the opposition Congress has no issues to attack the Bjp-led government.
“I have travelled across the country, everyone is waiting to vote for PM Modi for the third time. My roadshow in Gandhinagar on Thursday was in areas where I pasted the party’s posters as a common karyakarta,” he said.
The minister said for 30 years, the people in Gandhinagar have been voting for him — first as an MLA and then as an MP — and it wasanemotionaljourneyforhim.
Shah said the BJP will register itsbestperformanceinsouthindia in the Lok Sabha polls this time. “South is ready to convert PM'S popularity into seats,” he said.
He also said that the government will do its best to eradicate Naxalism from the country.
Meanwhile, at a rally in Rajasthan’s Pali seat Friday, Shah said “bumper voting” has taken place in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. “In the first phase, bumper voting is taking place across the country. Whoever goes in, comes out shouting ‘Modi, Modi’,” he said.
The rally took place in Bhopalgarh in Pali, which will go to polls in the second phase on April 26. BJP’S candidate there is PP Chaudhary.
Targeting the Congress, Shah said members of the party did not attend the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration ceremony as they were “afraid of the minority vote-bank”. The BJP leader said after “500 years”, Ram Lalla celebrated his birthday (Ram Navami) at the new temple.
Hittingoutatcongressleader Rahul Gandhi over the OBC (other backward classes) issue, Shah said it was the Congress that opposed the Mandal commission report. Prime Minister Modi has worked to honour members of the backward classes and has given constitutional status to the backward classes commission, he said.