‘Inciting people’: INDIA bloc demands EC action against PM Modi for ‘bulldozer on Ram temple’ remark | India News
NEW DELHI: The INDIA bloc leaders on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for claiming Congress will run a bulldozer over Ayodhya’s Ram temple if the INDIA bloc is voted to power. INDIA bloc leaders — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray — also called for a strong action against the PM by the Election Commission for “inciting people”.The alliance leaders stressed that they were committed to protecting the religious freedom of all citizens and ensuring that the country runs as per the Constitution.
“No prime minister before Modi has ever indulged in inciting people like he has been doing. He speaks about democracy repeatedly but doesn’t adhere to the tenets of democracy,” Kharge said in a joint press conference with other INDIA bloc leaders in Mumbai.
On PM Modi‘s recent statement that the Congress will bulldoze the Ram mandir in Ayodhya and also restore Article 370 if the INDIA bloc is voted to power, Kharge said, “We have never used a bulldozer on anyone. Bulldozer is their government. This comment is to instigate and the Election Commission should take action against him. Our government will function as per the Constitution. We will protect everything,” Kharge said.
“Wherever he goes, he tries to create division, speaks of dividing society,” the Congress president added.
Speaking in the same voice, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said if BJP says Congress will bulldoze Ram mandir, that party will also ban RSS. Attacking the BJP and PM Modi for calling his party “nakli” (fake) Shiv Sena, Thackeray said the BJP will also call RSS ‘nakli Sangh’. Citing BJP chief JP Nadda’s interview, in which he said that BJP is capable and runs its own affairs, while the RSS is an ideological front and does its own work, Thackeray said, “BJP wants to disassociate itself with an organisation that gave birth to it.” The “jumla era” will end on June 4 and “achhe din” will come when the INDIA alliance comes to power, the Sena (UBT) chief said.
Speaking at a seperate event, former Union minister Salman Khurshid also voiced strong opposition to PM’s ‘bulldoze Ram temple’ charge. “The entire nation has accepted the temple that was built in accordance with a Supreme Court verdict,” Khurshid said.
“The Prime Minister should remember that the credit for the construction of the temple goes not to him but to the Supreme Court. God belongs to all, so do places of worship. It is unfortunate that the PM is speaking such language”, he added.
PM Modi, in a rally on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki, alleged that the Congress will run a bulldozer on the Ram temple if the INDIA bloc comes to power. “If the SP-Congress comes to power, it will send Ram Lalla once again to a tent, and a bulldozer will be rolled over the temple,” he said.
(With agency inputs)
“No prime minister before Modi has ever indulged in inciting people like he has been doing. He speaks about democracy repeatedly but doesn’t adhere to the tenets of democracy,” Kharge said in a joint press conference with other INDIA bloc leaders in Mumbai.
On PM Modi‘s recent statement that the Congress will bulldoze the Ram mandir in Ayodhya and also restore Article 370 if the INDIA bloc is voted to power, Kharge said, “We have never used a bulldozer on anyone. Bulldozer is their government. This comment is to instigate and the Election Commission should take action against him. Our government will function as per the Constitution. We will protect everything,” Kharge said.
“Wherever he goes, he tries to create division, speaks of dividing society,” the Congress president added.
Speaking in the same voice, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said if BJP says Congress will bulldoze Ram mandir, that party will also ban RSS. Attacking the BJP and PM Modi for calling his party “nakli” (fake) Shiv Sena, Thackeray said the BJP will also call RSS ‘nakli Sangh’. Citing BJP chief JP Nadda’s interview, in which he said that BJP is capable and runs its own affairs, while the RSS is an ideological front and does its own work, Thackeray said, “BJP wants to disassociate itself with an organisation that gave birth to it.” The “jumla era” will end on June 4 and “achhe din” will come when the INDIA alliance comes to power, the Sena (UBT) chief said.
Speaking at a seperate event, former Union minister Salman Khurshid also voiced strong opposition to PM’s ‘bulldoze Ram temple’ charge. “The entire nation has accepted the temple that was built in accordance with a Supreme Court verdict,” Khurshid said.
“The Prime Minister should remember that the credit for the construction of the temple goes not to him but to the Supreme Court. God belongs to all, so do places of worship. It is unfortunate that the PM is speaking such language”, he added.
PM Modi, in a rally on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki, alleged that the Congress will run a bulldozer on the Ram temple if the INDIA bloc comes to power. “If the SP-Congress comes to power, it will send Ram Lalla once again to a tent, and a bulldozer will be rolled over the temple,” he said.
(With agency inputs)
