The Congress chief questions Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s continued silence over Trump’s claims on Indo-Pak ceasefire
NEW DELHI/RAIPUR — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday accused the BJP government of manipulating the voter lists in Maharashtra and Bihar. He also questioned the continued silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over repeated claims of US President Donald Trump that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
Addressing the Kisan-Jawan-Samvidhan Mega rally in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the Congress president pointed out that while the BJP manipulated the voter list in Maharashtra by adding 75 lakh votes within a short span of a few months, in Bihar, it was now trying to delete two crore votes.
Coming down heavily on the BJP government in Chhattisgarh, he said it was working only for the benefit of a few capitalist cronies of Prime Minister Modi and not the common people of the state.
Addressing the Kisan-Jawan-Samvidhan Mega rally in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the Congress president warned the BJP government against any attempt to fiddle with the Constitution.
He alleged that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was frequently visiting Chhattisgarh only to facilitate and supervise the handover of the state resources to Modi’s friends.
Kharge claimed that the BJP government was systematically destroying the natural resources of Chhattisgarh like ‘water, forests and land’ (Jal, Jungle aur Zameen) to hand over these to Modi’s friends like Adani and Ambani.
“The Chhattisgarh chief minister is following the directions of Modi and Shah and not in the interest of the state”, Kharge claimed, while observing it was an insult to the people of Chhattisgarh.
Otherwise, he observed, the government should have worked for the benefit of the people. “What to talk of providing any benefits, the BJP government stopped various welfare schemes being provided by the Congress government”, he remarked.
The Congress president warned the BJP government against any attempt to fiddle with the Constitution. He referred to the demand made by an RSS leader to drop “secular” and “socialist” words from the Constitution.
He asserted that Congress will never allow it to happen. Moreover, he asked the BJP how come on the one hand it could include secular and socialist words in its own constitution, on the other hand it encouraged people who were seeking to remove these words from the Constitution.
He reminded the BJP leadership of the lesson the people of the country taught it in the 2024 general elections when the party claimed that it would win ‘400 plus’ seats and change the Constitution.
He said the people gave such a befitting reply to the BJP that today, Prime Minister Modi’s government needs the support of the two crutches of Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu. The moment one crutch is withdrawn, the government will collapse, he remarked.
Those present at the rally included Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, general secretary in charge of Chhattisgarh Sachin Pilot, former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel, PCC president Deepak Baij, Charan Das Mahant, and others.
