Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the RSS were strengthening the wall obstructing the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs, even as he acknowledged that the efforts of the UPA government to bring down that wall were not sufficient.Addressing the party’s ‘Samvidhan Rakshak Abhiyaan’ at the Talkatora Stadium here, Gandhi, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said it is his guarantee, that “Modi has not read” the Constitution.
“If PM Modi would have read this book then what he does daily, he would not do it,” Gandhi said, displaying a copy of the Constitution of India.
Gandhi said the country’s whole system is pitted against Dalits, Adivasis and backward-class people.
He said a wall obstructs the path of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs as he accused Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the ideological mentor of the BJP — of strengthening that wall by “adding cement to it”.
“Slowly the wall (obstructing the path of SCs, STs, OBCs) is getting strengthened. Earlier, the UPA government gave MGNREGA, the land acquisition act, the right to food…those were ways to weaken that wall. Today, when I look back, I can say the UPA government did not weaken the wall to the extent it should have, it did not do it as strongly as it should have,” Gandhi said.
“However, we used to make efforts to weaken that wall but they (the BJP) are strengthening that wall by adding concrete,” the former Congress president said.