Rajnath Singh has hit out on the Congress (File)
New Delhi:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has no hearth whereas his social gathering is taking part in with hearth by making an attempt to create Hindu-Muslim divide for electoral dividends, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has stated.
In an interview to PTI, Rajnath Singh additionally indicated that the BJP will implement its big-ticket plans like rolling out of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and implementing the ‘One Nation One Election’ push if it retains energy for the third consecutive time period.
The defence minister additionally stated that he was assured that the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) will cross 400 seats and the BJP will recover from 370 as these projections had been made after detailed evaluation of the bottom scenario and never made just for public consumption.
On the general political panorama, the defence minister accused the Congress of making an attempt to disturb social concord and attempting to create tensions on spiritual strains.
“They’re making an attempt to create Hindu-Muslim divide for electoral features. The Congress is attempting to create tensions on spiritual strains,” he alleged.
“The Congress needs to disturb social concord. They take a look at the Muslim neighborhood solely as a vote financial institution. I’ve a suggestion for them — politics shouldn’t be accomplished just for forming governments. The intention of politics must be for nation constructing,” he stated.
“Rahul Gandhi has no hearth however Congress is taking part in with hearth,” he stated.
Mr Singh stated folks of the nation will repose their religion in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP’s tally will enhance considerably based mostly on the efficiency of the federal government within the final 5 years.
“Our seats will improve in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and we are going to get some seats in Tamil Nadu. Our account will open in Kerala as effectively. We’re successful variety of seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana,” the senior BJP chief stated.
“We’ll improve our tally in Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam. We’re sweeping Chhattisgarh,” he stated, asserting that the BJP will cross the 370-mark.
Requested whether or not the BJP’s seats in Maharashtra will come down, he didn’t give a direct reply however stated there could also be some changes right here and there.
The BJP chief additionally got here down onerous on the Congress for its plan to “redistribute” wealth, saying it is going to have disastrous penalties for the nation’s financial system.
“The idea of redistribution of wealth will set off recession. Argentina and Venezuela applied it and confronted disastrous penalties. The buyers will lose confidence in India,” Singh stated.
On the BJP’s big-ticket plans like implementation of the UCC and ‘One Nation One Ballot’ push in if it retains energy, Singh stated it fulfils guarantees that it makes to the folks of India.
In its manifesto, the BJP pledged to implement the UCC if it returns to energy after the overall elections.
It additionally talked about that the social gathering will transfer ahead with a resolve to grasp the concept of ‘One Nation, One Election’.
“We all the time fulfil our commitments. We’ll by no means enable any query mark on our credibility and won’t compromise on the nation’s unity and integrity. We implement no matter we are saying in our manifesto. We now have to do no matter we are saying,” Mr Singh stated.
“We’ll go for ‘One Nation One Election. We’ll take views of each quarter, together with all political events on it,” he stated.
On the UCC, the defence minister stated even the Structure-makers felt a necessity for it, as it’s talked about within the directive ideas.
“The Congress needs to create worry psychosis; they need to use the Hindu-Muslim card,” he stated.
“They don’t have any subject. They need to type a authorities by dividing the society within the identify of caste, creed and faith and so they have all the time accomplished it,” he alleged.
