BJP’s bulldozer remarks: Congress chief Kharge seeks EC action
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Mumbai: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders repeatedly claimed that the opposition would "run bulldozer over Ram temple if voted to power," Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and other leaders of the INDIA alliance on Saturday urged the Election Commission to act.
During a news conference held in Mumbai, Kharge, NCP-SP leader Sharad Pawar and former chief minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray, addressed Modi's accusation that the INDIA bloc will demolish the Ram temple, reduce the quota for SC, ST, and OBC categories, and reinstate Article 370 in the event of their election.
Modi, according to Kharge, is stirring up trouble over matters "that the Congress will never do." The government of the INDIA bloc, according to Thackeray, will finish building the Ram temple in Ayodhya, while Pawar said that their government has a responsibility to safeguard not only temples but also all places of worship for all major religions. Kharge added that reservations as defined by the Constitution will continue to exist, the New Indian Express reported.
“We have never used a bulldozer on anyone. Modi has the habit of lying and inciting people about things which Congress will never do or which are impossible to be implemented,” he said, claiming that the INDIA bloc will win 46 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra.
Kharge said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will be part of the alliance. “Earlier Mamata Banerjee expressed outside support for the alliance, but now she has said that she will be part of the government,” he said.
Kharge said Modi speaks of providing a free ration of 5 kg to 80 crore people. “Our government enacted the Food Security Act and it is bound to implement it. The Congress has now said that we will give 10 kg free ration,” he said.
According to Pawar, Modi is claiming credit for the Food Security Act, even though the previous government made the decision.
According to Thackeray, the BJP only has one prime minister candidate, and even that is ineffective, while the INDIA alliance has multiple prime minister candidates. “Now they cannot replace the face at the fag end of poll campaign. We have decided what we should do when we get the majority,” he said.
Attacking the BJP and Modi for referring to his party as "nakli" (false) Shiv Sena, Thackeray hinted that the BJP would refer to the RSS as "nakli Sangh."
He cited JP Nadda, the head of the BJP, to argue that although the RSS is an ideological front that handles its own business, the BJP is capable of managing its own affairs, "BJP wants to dissociate itself from an organisation that gave birth to it," stated Thackeray. On June 4, the "jumla era" will come to an end, and "achhe din" will occur when the INDIA bloc gains power, according to Thackeray.
