Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social media handle on Wednesday released a short 1.15-minute video clip with the caption, “For me, the Constitution is sacred.” That’s supreme. ” The video begins with Prime Minister Modi saying at an election rally in Zaheerabad, Telangana state on Tuesday that the Constitution is a “holy book” for him and that he is the only prime minister to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of India.
“Maine Surendra Nagar main haathi ke upar hamare samvidhan ko rakha tha.,” PM Modi said while showing a video of the 2010 procession.
The prime minister then visited Parliament for the first time in 2014, where he placed a plaque on the steps of the parliament building reflecting the constitution and bowed as a mark of respect, and in 2019 he bowed in front of a copy of the constitution in the center. He said he did it. Parliament House after being elected leader of the NDA alliance.
A day earlier, on Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi’s main challenger Rahul Gandhi appeared at a parliamentary election rally in Bhind, Madhya Pradesh state, holding a red pocket-sized Constitution in his hand. Gandhi carried a copy of the Constitution and said that if the Bharatiya Janata Party was voted to power again, it would “tear up” and “scramble” the Constitution, which granted rights to the poor, Dalits, Scheduled Tribes and other backward classes. insisted.
Not to be left behind, Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday distributed pocket-sized copies of the Constitution after a press conference at the AICC headquarters in Delhi, and behind the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘400 Pearls’ slogan. He claimed that his “real intention” was security. power to change the constitution.
He said ‘Sanvidhan Bhadro’ had been a demand of the RSS since 1949. Quoting BR Ambedkar’s remarks in the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, Ramesh said, “It is because of the discipline of the Congress Party that the Drafting Committee was able to do that.” . He said, “The Constitution should be administered in Parliament with a sure knowledge of the fate of each article and each amendment,” and that “the credit for the smooth sailing of the drafting of the Constitution in Parliament, therefore, lies with the Congress Party.” Ta.
Mr. Ramesh further cited an article which he claims was published five days later in the RSS-linked publication ‘Organizer’ on November 30, 1949, in which he said, ‘The worst thing about Bharat’s new constitution is that It’s not a Bharatiya thing.”
Both arguments revolve around reservations, frame them within the larger context of a constitution that guarantees equality and reservations, and tap into anxieties and concerns that go beyond caste divides.
This constitutional supremacy in campaign rhetoric has gone through two voting phases and has five more to go, perhaps for the first time since the post-Emergency 1977 elections.
The subtext is of course reserved. Prime Minister Modi has repeatedly claimed that if the Congress comes to power, it will “grab” OBC reservations to give to minority Muslims.
Today, at a meeting in Banaskantha, PM Modi referred to Rahul and said, “Congress Shahzada proudly called the entire Modi community, the entire OBC community, thieves (in 2019)…Now in 2024…Congress and INDI The alliance has entered the Maidan.” In yet another lie…they point to the Constitution, Aarakshan Lelenge…Iska Dar Dikate Hai…Congress Ki Jamaat Khan Kolkar Sun Lu…This is Modi, until Modi is alive…I will not let you play the game of reserving the foundations of religion. The reservations that SCs, STs, OBCs and the general category of poor people got… they got benefits… under the Constitution. Baba Saheb…We Rati Baar Bhi Koi Loot Nahi Sakta Hai…If Congress has the courage…let me declare…that is my challenge. ”
The gist of the prime minister’s argument is that if the Congress is voted to power, it will create a quota for minorities (including Muslims) within the 27% quota for OBCs.
“Overnight, the Congress government in Karnataka declared all Muslim castes OBCs and told them that you are now 27 per cent maliks (owners),” PM Modi said in Agra a few days ago. “Congress is going to play the same game in UP… OBCs will have to understand the game between Congress and SP. UP has Kurmi, Maurya, Kushwaha, Yadav, Jat, Gurjar, Rajbhar, Teli, Pal etc. , there are many OBC castes. This is their right. But they (Congress) want to give it to their favorite vote bank,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Congress and opposition parties claim that the ruling party wants to amend the constitution and win more than 400 seats to take away the reserved benefits of SCs, STs and OBCs as the RSS of the BJP. Being a source of ideology, he was always against reservations.
This is part of Rahul’s aggressive caste census pitch, framed as a warning about the threat of constitutional changes by the Bharatiya Janata Party, directed at OBCs.
