PM attacks Congress over Waqf, ‘votebank politics’ in Maharashtra victory speech

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an attack on Congress on Saturday, accusing the party of appeasement politics, alleging it used the Waqf board as a tool to secure a votebank.
“Congress made laws to promote appeasement politics, and the Waqf Board is an example of it. There is no place for Waqf law in the Constitution given to us by Babasaheb Ambedkar, but the Congress supported it to increase its vote bank,” PM Modi said. He also alleged that before Congress rule ended in 2014, the party handed over several properties near Delhi to the Waqf board.
The Prime Minister made the remarks at the BJP headquarters, following the NDA’s massive win in Maharashtra Assembly elections.
“In its hunger for power, the Congress family has destroyed the Constitution’s secular values,” PM Modi said.
Citing an example of it, PM Modi said that the Congress “didn’t care” for the Supreme Court’s ruling and handed over land around Delhi to the Waqf Board after losing the Assembly elections in the capital in 2014.
“The people of Delhi will get surprised… In 2014, after the Congress lost the Assembly elections, the Congress gave several lands near Delhi to the Waqf Board,” he said.
The Prime Minister further said that the Waqf law was “not mentioned in BR Ambedkar’s constitution”.
“Still, Congress gave birth to the Waqf Board in the name of secularism, so that the vote bank of the Congress family can increase,” he said.