BJP ignores EC warning! JP Nadda echoes PM Modi's remark, says ‘Congress plots to transfer SC-ST rights to Muslims’

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He alleged that they program to instrumentality distant the rights of lower-caste groups (SC, ST, and OBC) and springiness them to Muslims.

In a station connected X successful Hindi, Nadda said, “The hidden docket of the Congress and INDI confederation is to snatch the rights of SC, ST and OBC and springiness it to Muslims. Congress says that Muslims person the archetypal close connected the country's resources, whereas Prime Minister Modi says that the mediocre person the archetypal close connected the resources. Congress hates SC, ST and OBC and appeasement is intelligibly disposable successful their manifesto too."

Nadda referred to erstwhile Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 2006 connection that minorities, peculiarly Muslims, person the superior assertion connected the country's resources. He besides noted that Singh made akin remarks successful April 2009.

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In response, the Congress accused the BJP of selectively citing Singh's words and claimed that the ruling enactment is spreading misinformation and promoting communal divisions to polarize voters during the ongoing elections, owed to insufficient nationalist support.

“He categorically stated that helium stood by his earlier assertion that Muslims should person archetypal close erstwhile it comes to resources," BJP wrote connected X.

Nadda's statements came conscionable 1 time aft the Election Commission of India (ECI) sent a announcement to the BJP person pursuing remarks made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had asserted that the absorption aimed to redistribute the public's wealthiness to Muslims.

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PTI reported that successful its missive addressed to BJP President J P Nadda, the EC asked him to respond by Monday to complaints filed by the Congress, CPI and CPI (ML) regarding the alleged “divisive and derogatory" remarks made by Modi connected April 21 successful Banswara.

It besides asked Nadda to bring to the announcement of each the prima campaigners of the enactment to “set precocious standards of governmental sermon and observe provisions of exemplary codification of behaviour successful missive and spirit".

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Apart from 20 constituencies successful Kerala, 13 seats successful Rajasthan, 8 successful Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 5 each successful Assam and Bihar, six successful Madhya Pradesh, 3 each successful Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and 1 each successful Tripura, Manipur, and Jammu & Kashmir are voting today.

The Lok Sabha elections, the world's largest electoral process, are taking spot successful 7 phases, concluding connected June 1, with ballot counting scheduled for June 4.

The archetypal signifier of this monolithic electoral undertaking was held connected April 19, covering 102 constituencies crossed 21 states and Union Territories. According to the Election Commission, elector turnout exceeded 62 per cent. The 3rd signifier of voting is acceptable for May 7.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Published: 26 Apr 2024, 01:06 PM IST