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BJP will never change Preamble, reservation will remain: Rajnath Singh

By Business Standard - 6 months ago
The BJP government will never change the Constitution or end reservation, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, accusing the Congress of creating "fear psychosis" and resorting to spreading misinformation for "vote bank" politics. In an interview to PTI, Singh blasted the Congress for spreading "canards" that the BJP will change the Constitution if it returns to power and especially asserted that there was no question of changing the Preamble of the Constitution. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been alleging that the BJP will "tear up and throw away" the Constitution if it retains power. Some other Congress functionaries had expressed apprehensions that the BJP may drop the word "secularism" from the Preamble of the Constitution. "Congress brought constitutional amendments 80 times. They changed the Preamble during the Emergency," the defence minister said. "The BJP will never change the Constitution. Constitution makers never imagined that there would be changes in the Preamble. Y

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