In this screenshot image from @narendramodi via Youtube on Monday, April 14, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting, in Hisar, Haryana. PM Modi laid the foundation stone of new terminal building of Hisar airport and flagged off a commercial flight from Hisar to Ayodhya.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (April 14, 2025) hit out at the Indian National Congress, accusing it of exploiting the country’s “holy Constitution as a weapon to grab power.”
He was addressing a gathering in Haryana’s Hisar after laying the foundation stone of the new terminal building of Hisar’s Maharaja Agrasen airport and flagged off a flight to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
“The Congress used the holy Constitution as a weapon to grab power; whenever the Congress saw a crisis of its power, they crushed the Constitution. During the Emergency, the Congress crushed the spirit of the Constitution so that they can stay in power,” he said.
In a sharp attack on the Congress, Mr. Modi said, “The Constitution’s spirit and sentiment clearly indicate that there should be a uniform citizen code for everyone, which I term as ‘secular civil code’, but the Congress never implemented it. In Uttarakhand, after the BJP formed its government, a secular civil code was implemented. But see the misfortune of the country, that people carrying the Constitution in their pocket, the people of the Congress are opposing it as well.”
“Our Constitution provided reservations for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class, but the Congress never cared about those benefits reaching the SCs, STs and OBCs. Instead of its political game, the Congress has gone against the dream of Baba Saheb Ambedkar, who evolved a system for social justice in the Constitution, and has back-stabbed him for their politics of appeasement. In Karnataka, the Congress government has snatched the rights of SCs, STs and OBCs and given reservation on the basis of religion, even though Baba Saheb Ambedkar had asserted during debate on the Constitution that there would be no provision of religion-based reservation in the Constitution,” he added.
Pointing out that the Congress’s politics of appeasement has resulted in a loss to the Muslim community as well, Mr. Modi said, “The Congress has made a handful of fundamentalists happy, the rest of the community has remained in bad condition, they remained uneducated, poor. The biggest example of Congress’s ill-conceived policy is the Waqf law. After the country’s Independence till 2013, the Waqf law was in place, but just to win elections and for its appeasement, vote-bank politics, the Congress, in the last months of 2013, amended the Waqf law for political gains. The Waqf law was changed in a way that it was placed even above Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s Constitution. It was the biggest disrespect of Baba Saheb,” he said.
Accusing the Congress of focusing on playing vote-bank politics, Mr. Modi said, “If in the true sense they have even a little bit of compassion towards Muslims, then the Congress party should appoint a Muslim as its party president. Why don’t they do it? You [Congress] give tickets for the parliamentary election, give 50% to Muslims, when they come [win], they will share their thoughts, but Congress won’t do it. Within the party [Congress], they don’t want to give anything, but on the other hand, they keep snatching the rights of the country’s citizen, which has exposed their intention of not working towards the welfare of anyone, especially the Muslims,” he said.
Published – April 14, 2025 12:45 pm IST