The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a blistering attack Tuesday on Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, accusing him of communal polarisation and disrespecting the Constitution, following his remarks on scrapping the Waqf Act if the opposition alliance comes to power in Bihar.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, party national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia referred to Yadav as a “Maulana” and “namazwadi,” alleging he was engaged in appeasement politics to woo Muslim voters ahead of the state assembly polls expected later this year.
“These ‘namazwadi’ do not believe in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution. They want to replace it with Sharia law for the benefit of only one community,” Bhatia said. He asserted that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) works for the inclusive development of all communities, unlike the opposition's "sectarian" agenda.
Yadav, a former deputy chief minister of Bihar, had stated during a ‘Save Waqf, Save Constitution’ rally at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on Sunday that the NDA government was on its way out and that the opposition alliance would “consign to the dustbin” the Waqf (Amendment) Act brought by the Modi government.
Bhatia responded sharply, questioning Yadav’s grasp of the law and his commitment to democratic principles. “Tejashwi Yadav, who failed Class 9, says he’ll throw a law passed by Parliament into the dustbin. Has he even read the Constitution?” Bhatia asked.
He further mentioned that laws made by Parliament cannot be unilaterally discarded by a state government and pointed out that the Waqf law is currently under judicial review by the Supreme Court. He accused Yadav of disrespecting the judiciary and displaying "anarchic tendencies."
Calling the opposition alliance “anti-Constitution, anti-democracy, and anti-Ambedkar,” Bhatia accused them of promoting a “poisonous” agenda. “People of Bihar will ensure that this communal politics is itself thrown into the dustbin,” he said.
Referring to the previous RJD-led governments in Bihar as “jungle raj,” Bhatia said, “Under jungle raj, the law and Constitution are torn apart. That’s what Tejashwi Yadav stands for, even while being in the opposition.”
He declared that the people of Bihar have already rejected this form of governance and are unlikely to return to it. “You will not come to power for the next 50 years,” he told Yadav, expressing confidence that the NDA will retain power in the upcoming elections.
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