Lucknow, June 28 (UNI) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) have opposed any move by the BJP to amend the Constitution to remove the words "Secular" and "Socialist" from the Preamble of the Constitution.
Both the parties threatened to launch an agitation if a "conspiracy was hatched to amend the Constitution".
BSP supremo Mayawati while talking to reporters here today warned the BJP and the Congress over the debate on the Constitution. She said that it seems that the BSP will have to raise its voice against these parties across the country.
Mayawati said that Babasaheb Ambedkar had given a "humanitarian" Constitution to the country by spending his entire life. "But, the first Congress party and now the BJP government never implemented it with full devotion. Both parties and their supporters mostly emphasised the ideology of their respective party. Unnecessary changes were made from time to time in the constitution," she alleged.
"Anyway, all the words used in the Indian Constitution and its Preamble, they satisfy the soul of the country and have been implemented in the country only after much understanding, long and deep thinking and now it is not right to tamper with them as it will be grossly inappropriate," she added.
BSP chief Mayawati alleged that "there is something else in the heart of both parties and something else on their tongue". Mayawati said that parties should rise above their narrow thought and avoid tampering with the Constitution.
BSP supremo also said that politics in the name of language going on in many states of the country is not good. "All languages should be respected," she said.
On the issue of voters list controversy in Bihar, Mayawati said the Election Commission should clarify its position and the political parties should be taken into confidence before launching any new decision.
Reacting on the rape of a student in Kolkata, she said that women are not completely safe anywhere in the entire country, including West Bengal. In this matter too, the central and all state governments must pay attention, she said.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said here today that, “Those opposing reservations are also opposing socialism and secularism words in the Constitution. The BJP had opposed these principles since its inception. Today, they continue spreading hatred because they cannot attack the Constitution directly. So they oppose secularism and socialism instead.”
Akhilesh Yadav further said that, "The excuse for the two words is actually the goal of the BJP and their fellow colleagues to remove the entire Constitution."
"That is why if the Constitution is to be saved, then the BJP has to be removed," he stressed.
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