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United News of India
15 hours ago
- Politics
- United News of India
BJP alleges INDI Bloc promoting ‘Namazwad', undermining constitutional values
New Delhi, June 30 (UNI) The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Opposition INDI Alliance, alleging that its parties like the RJD and Samajwadi party were attempting to promote what he termed as 'Namazwad'—a religiously motivated deviation from constitutional principles—and accused them of undermining the legacy of BR Ambedkar. Addressing a press briefing, Senior BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi claimed that there is 'no mention of the concept of Waqf in the Quran, attributing it to interpretations developed by clerics. He further said the Quran encourages voluntary giving, not institutional religious control, and warned that opposition parties are attempting to 'convert Samajwad (socialism) into Namazwad.' 'If their government comes—which is not going to happen—they will throw Baba Saheb Ambedkar's Constitution in the dustbin and implement Sharia law,' the BJP Rajya Sabha MPP said. 'They are bowing before mullahs and maulavis to pursue hardline vote bank politics. Be it the Congress, the RJD, or the Samajwadi Party—they are all driven by a thirst for votes from fundamentalist sections,' he alleged. Trivedi also revisited the Shah Bano case of 1985, accusing the Congress of having previously placed personal law above constitutional supremacy by enacting legislation that effectively overruled a Supreme Court judgment in favour of Muslim women's rights. He suggested that such precedents demonstrate the Congress's historical willingness to appease conservative religious sentiments at the expense of legal uniformity. Reinforcing his party's stance, Trivedi said the BJP remains committed to preserving the values enshrined in the Constitution, adding that voters must choose between 'a government that respects Ambedkar's vision' and one that 'seeks to impose religious law through the backdoor.' 'Only once in Indian history has a party crossed 400 seats, and that was the Congress in 1985. What did they do? They used that majority to push Sharia over the Constitution,' the BJP leader said. Ahead of the assembly elections in Bihar, the BJP MP remarked, 'I want to say to the people of Bihar that there are two options. The INDI alliance, which will try to implement Sharia through the back door if it comes to power, and on the other side, our government, which will remain committed to protecting Baba Saheb's constitution.'
Time of India
17 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
'Namazwadi, Not Samajwadi'- BJP Fires Salvo at RJD MP Tejashwi Yadav Over Waqf Act ‘Dustbin' Remark
BJP has accused RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav of disrespecting the Constitution and appeasing communal politics. BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi slammed Tejashwi's controversial vow to "throw the Waqf Act into the dustbin" if the INDIA bloc comes to power, calling it a dangerous attempt to impose 'Namazwad' in place of 'Samajwad'. The BJP alleges that opposition parties are undermining Ambedkar's Constitution by putting Sharia above parliamentary law, and doing so to chase vote-bank politics. Tejashwi's remarks have triggered national outrage, with the BJP questioning if the INDIA bloc is ready to override judicial and legislative processes.#waqfact #tejashwiyadav #bjpvsrjd #namazvad #biharelections #rjdcontroversy #sudhanshutrivedi #waqfcontroversy #bjpattack #sharialaw #toi #toibharat #bharat #breakingnews #indianews
Indian Express
18 hours ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘BJP and JDU standing with Samajwad, RJD and SP are with Namazwad': BJP hits out at Tejashwi over anti-Waqf protest
Equating the Emergency and its disregard for the Constitution with the INDIA bloc's opposition to the Waqf Act, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday attacked the Congress-RJD-Samajwadi Party combine in Bihar for standing with 'Namazwad' instead of remaining true to the ideological tenets of Socialism. Indicating that its focus was gradually shifting to the poll-bound Bihar, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said it was the BJP-led NDA alliance, which, with its ally the Janata Dal(United), was truly standing with the socialist principle of equal distribution of wealth. Trivedi's comments came a day after former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav said the INDIA government in the state would relegate the Waqf Act to the dustbin after coming to power. Yadav was speaking at a protest organised against the Act by the Imarat-e-Shariah, a Muslim organisation, at Gandhi Maidan in Patna Sunday. 'We have recently commemorated 50 years of the blackest chapter in the history of the country's democracy, that the Emergency was. It is saddening that in the same Gandhi Maidan where during the Emergency lakhs had gathered to protect the Constitution, an INDI alliance leader, Tejashwi Yadav, said that we will throw a law which has been ratified by Parliament into the dustbin,' Trivedi said at a press conference. 'They will neither respect Parliament nor the judiciary when it comes to their need for a vote bank… It is clear that the INDI alliance is unable to get out of the 50-year-old mindset of throwing the Constitution in the dustbin,' he added. The BJP and the National Democratic Alliance, Trivedi said, were, on the other hand, committed to stopping any such attack on B R Ambedkar's Constitution or its provisions. He also questioned whether the provisions of the Waqf Act, which the INDIA bloc and its leaders were against, existed in Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, where Islam was born, or Indonesia which was the largest Islamic nation or others including Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh or even ISIS-dominated parts of Syria and Iraq. 'I want to ask the INDI alliance — are you thinking of establishing a bigger Shariah law in Bihar (than these countries)? Parties wearing the cloak of Socialism, such as the RJD and Samajwadi Party, I want to ask them, is equal distribution of wealth not what it says? What you are saying is that a handful of people should have control over 39 lakh acres of land,' he alleged. 'This mentality is against the principles of socialism… The socialism of the RJD and SP cannot be called that, but what is being called 'namazwad' on social media… Today it is we (the NDA) who are standing with the socialism of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur, Jaiprakash Narayan and (Ram Manohar) Lohia by seeking that each poor gets their due… Today, it is the BJP and JDU who are standing with Samajwad while the RJD and SP are with Namazwad,' he added. It was through granting minority status to institutions, Trivedi alleged, that the INDIA bloc sought to snatch reservation from those belonging to the SC/ST/OBC communities 'through the backdoor.' 'We will not let these people succeed in their aim, the land that belongs to the people of the country will remain theirs…the country will function according to Ambedkar's Constitution and not the provisions of Shariah,' he added.
