Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday attacked the Congress in the Rajya Sabha, saying the party treated the Constitution as the “private fiefdom” of one family and “played fraud” with Parliament.
Concluding a two-day debate on the “Glorious Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India”, Shah ripped into the Congress for its appeasement politics and claimed that the party wanted to breach the 50 per cent quota limit to provide reservation to Muslims.
He also asked the Congress if it supported the Muslim personal law and alleged that the party never worked for the welfare of the backward classes.
Shah asserted that the BJP has already brought in a common civil code (Uniform Civil Code) in Uttarakhand and will implement it in all states.
He attacked the Congress for being a “sore loser” as it blamed EVMs for its defeat in the assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, saying the party should give up its canard against EVMs and shed its appeasement and dynastic politics as well as corruption to return to power.
“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 alleged, referring to the insertion of Article 35A without parliamentary assent.
Criticising the Congress for bringing in reservation on the basis of religion in two states ruled by it, Shah termed it “unconstitutional”.