Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took a swipe at the Congress over bringing various amendments to the Constitution and said that the oldest party considered the Constitution as their “private fiefdom” and amended it so that to stay in power.
Addressing the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India, Amit Shah said, “In the last 75 years, the Congress played fraud in the name of the Constitution… They (Nehru-Gandhi family) considered not just the party as their private property, but also treated the Constitution as their ‘private fiefdom’.”
Shah also accused the Congress of being anti-reservation and said it never worked for the benefit of the backward classes.
“Today, I want to tell you how the Congress party is actually anti-reservation. Their words and actions are completely contradictory. In 1995, the Kaka Saheb Kalelkar Commission was formed to provide reservation to OBCs. Where is its report? It was forgotten because OBCs would have received reservation. Any report that comes has to be appeared before the Cabinet, but instead of bringing it to Parliament, they kept it in the archives. If the Kaka Saheb Kalelkar report had been accepted, the Mandal Commission report of 1980 would not have been necessary.”
The minister also chided the Congress for “finding faults” in EVMs after losing elections. He recalled the Jharkhand and Maharashtra elections result day where party blamed EVM when they lost in Maharashtra but didn’t complained when won the Jharkhand elections.
He also charged that the Congress deprived Muslim women of their rights for years only for vote bank politics. “Congress does vote bank politics, we are not doing vote bank politics. The Congress party has done injustice to Muslim sisters for so long by doing vote bank politics. We have given rights to Muslim mothers and sisters by ending triple talaq,” Amit Shah said.
“They (Cong) did nothing except eulogising one family,” Shah said.