Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, alleging that these two parties have made this Constitution casteist, communal and capitalist to a large extent through several amendments.
“There is no doubt that now the ruling party and the opposition, who are competing to show the copy of the constitution inside and outside the Parliament, seem to be two sides of the same coin,” Mayawati told reporters.
“The way these people are playing with the Constitution for their own political interests is absolutely not right. The ruling party and the opposition have made so many amendments that now this is no longer the egalitarian, secular and Bahujan-friendly Constitution intended by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Rather, it has become a casteist, communal and capitalist Constitution in most cases,” Mayawati alleged.
She said that in order to divert the attention of the public, the ruling party and the opposition are in collusion and pretending to forcibly save the Constitution, from which the people of the country must be cautious. “It is well known that the Congress and BJP have secretly joined hands and did not allow the Mandal Commission report for the backward classes to be implemented during their regimes,” she said.
Remembering former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Mayawati claimed that when the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented in her government, the people of Congress and BJP had strongly opposed it from behind the scenes.
“I am talking about internal collusion between the government and the opposition because in the states where the governments of these two parties are running, all those state governments have completely failed to remove poverty, inflation and unemployment,” the BSP chief said.
She also alleged that now the people of casteist mentality in the government and the opposition either want to end the reservation given to SC, ST and OBC in education and government jobs due to Baba Saheb or they do not want to give them full benefits by making it ineffective.
“Therefore, the casteist, capitalist and communal politics being done by the government and the opposition in the name of saving the Constitution is not going to benefit these classes at all,” she concluded.
