RJD and its allies have anti-Constitutional mindset, says BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (July 1, 2025) slammed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav and his political allies for their “anti-backward, anti-Babasaheb Ambedkar, and anti-Constitution mindset”.

At a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said the priority of RJD, Congress and their allies was to “implement provisions like sharia, polygamy and halala and empowerment of only one religion”.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is implementing the policies and schemes of Jan Kalyan and Viksit Bharat along with empowering Dalits, backward classes, women and youth, whereas Tejashwi Yadav is opposing it,” he said.

Mr. Bhatia said the BJP had raised a “serious issue” that those who called themselves socialists in Bihar were in reality “namazwadis”. “These people neither accept nor respect Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution... whenever they talk of sharia, the BJP will respond by standing firmly with the Constitution,” he said.

He said Mr. Yadav’s remark about “throwing the Waqf Amendment law” into the dustbin was unfortunate and asked him to clarify if any State government can scrap a Central law passed by Parliament. “The matter is currently pending before the Supreme Court, and an interim order has been reserved. So, how can Tejashwi Yadav declare the law unconstitutional? Is this not contempt of court? Has Tejashwi Yadav placed himself above the judiciary,” Mr. Bhatia asked.

Terming RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Mr. Yadav as faces of “jungle raj”, Mr. Bhatia said, “Even though elections have not yet been announced, their intentions are crystal clear: they are determined to pursue communal politics... their sole agenda is to polarise, create Hindu-Muslim divide and spread communalism.”

He said the people of Bihar and the entire country would ensure that those who insulted the Constitution were “themselves thrown into the dustbin of communal politics”. The BJP leader said that during the 2024 Lok Sabha election, all the parties in the Congress-led alliance had accepted the manifesto that “clearly stated that personal laws and sharia would be implemented, and religion-based reservations would be granted”, which were “completely unconstitutional”.

Stating that the BJP and the National Democratic Alliance would not “allow such poisonous ideologies” to succeed, Mr. Bhatia said, “If Tejashwi Yadav truly wants to listen to the public, he should first recall what his father, Lalu Prasad, said in Parliament on May 7, 2010. He himself had admitted that the Waqf Board had grabbed land from the general public and the government, and that there was a strong need for strict laws against this.”