MADHYA PRADESH: Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the Congress, asserted on Tuesday that the BJP will “tear apart” and “throw away” the Constitution, which gave rights to the underprivileged, Dalits, STs, and OBCs. Gandhi, clutching a copy of the Constitution, declared during an address at a rally in the Bhind area of Madhya Pradesh that the current Lok Sabha election is not an ordinary election but rather a conflict between two ideologies. “The Constitution granted the people MGNREGA, land rights, reservations, and other things. It also gave the poor, STs, and OBCs various rights. He declared, “This Constitution will be destroyed and torn apart if the BJP wins power.“The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, the prime minister, and his members of parliament have decided that if they win, they will destroy and discard this book, the Constitution. The Wayanad MP went on to say, “The BJP wants this book to be thrown away and 20–25 billionaires should run the country.” Regarding the reservation issue, he also took aim at the BJP administration. He questioned why the current government is privatising PSUs, the Railways, and other industries if it is not opposed to reservation. Gandhi added that the Congress will make crores of women “lakhpati” through its Mahalaksmi Yojana if it were to win power. He claimed that as part of the initiative, the women’s accounts will get a monthly transfer of Rs 1 lakh (about Rs 8,500) from the government to qualify them as “lakhpati”. “If Prime Minister Narendra Modi can turn 22-25 industrialists into billionaires, then the Congress will turn crores of women into lakhpatis,” Gandhi stated. In the race for the Bhind Lok Sabha (SC-reserved seat), the Congress has put MLA Phool Singh Baraiya up against Sandhya Rai, the current MP for the BJP.
