BARMER
: In a strong rebuttal to the
opposition
‘s repeated accusations that BJP was seeking a massive mandate of 400-plus seats because it wanted 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 as the Constitution is concerned, even if Babasaheb Ambedkar himself comes, he cannot abolish it. The Constitution is Gita, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Bible and Quran for govt,” PM said at a rally in Barmer.
Accusing INDIA bloc of “telling lies in the name of the Constitution”, Modi said: “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 other two in the fray.
In a veiled reference to the CPM manifesto, Modi said a party in the INDIA bloc had called 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 asked.