BJP govt will never change Preamble of Constitution, reservation will remain: Rajnath

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. His assurance that the Preamble of the Constitution will not be changed addresses concerns among critics that the word ‘secular’ to describe India could be removed by the BJP if it retains power.

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.