Modi resorting to ‘low-level’ attacks as he knows he will lose polls, says Congress’ KC Venugopal
‘People are now realising that whenever elections come, Modi ji will use these type of weapons,’ said the Rajya Sabha member.
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Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was resorting to “low-level” attacks against his party because he is aware that his Bharatiya Janata Party will lose the Lok Sabha election, The Hindu reported.
The Rajya Sabha member reiterated that the Congress, as a part of its poll campaign, has cautioned that the BJP plans to amend the Constitution if voted to power, as evidenced by the Hindutva party’s own MPs and candidates clarifying that they require 400 Lok Sabha seats to do so.
“So, finally, there is only one agenda [of the BJP’s]: Hindu-Muslim, Hindu-Muslim and polarise,” Venugopal said in an interview with the newspaper.
Venugopal was responding to a question about statements that the ruling party’s leaders have made on the campaign trail about needing an overwhelming majority in the Lower House of Parliament in order to prevent the Congress from diverting reservations in government jobs and education to Muslims, and to prevent the Opposition INDIA bloc from running a bulldozer over the recently inaugurated Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Modi and other leaders of the BJP have claimed that the Congress intends to create reservations for Muslims at the cost of reservations intended for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes.
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