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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government wants to change the Constitution and curtail the rights of people.

 

Addressing a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Balod in support of the Congress’s Kanker Lok Sabha candidate Biresh Thakur, she also decried the use of religion in politics and said this was never the tradition of the country.

 

“Several BJP leaders in their speeches say give them 400 Lok Sabha seats and they will change the Constitution. Why are they saying this?…. This is a conspiracy. The Constitution has given you the right to vote, given you reservations, ensured protection of tribal culture and facilitated the development of Dalits. The BJP-led Union government wants to change the Constitution and curtail people’s rights,” she claimed.

 

Attacking the BJP, she said Modi will come for campaigning with great fanfare, make grand promises, talk about tribal culture but will do nothing to protect it.

 

He will not speak on inflation, unemployment etc, but an attempt will be made to show he is very powerful, while assurances will be given that everything will be fine, the Congress leader said.

 

“I want to ask you whether everything has become good in the last 10 years? This is the politics of show off,” she said.

 

“Indiraji (former prime minister Indira Gandhi) had a puja room to perform rituals but she did it in solitude. It was not to show off. Religion should not be used in politics as it has not been our tradition,” the Congress leader further said.

 

“The BJP-led Union government is only working for a few industrialist friends of PM Modi. Inflation has increased beyond limit in the past 10 years. Unemployment is at its highest in 45 years. Imposition of GST on farm implements has made cultivation difficult,” she claimed.

 

She said the BJP keeps talking about dynastic politics and corruption but leaders who join them become clean.

 

“They have levelled allegations on former chief minister Bhupesh Baghel. If he says he is joining the BJP, then they will say Baghelji is very honest,” Gandhi said.

 

Baghel is the Congress’s candidate from Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat.

 

Kanker and Rajnandgaon will witness voting on April 26.