All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would change the Constitution of India, in order to eventually remove reservations for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Mr. Owaisi, who represents the Hyderabad Lok Sabha constituency, was addressing a public meeting as part of his election campaign.
“I want to tell my Dalit brothers and all those who believe in Baba Saheb Ambedkar: remember this and write this down, Narendra Modi will bring about a change in the Constitution. The RSS upper-caste people never accepted the Constitution, and were never able to digest the fact that Ambedkar, being the most qualified of his time, was the one who framed the Constitution. The BJP wants to change the Constitution. If it has its way, reservations will be removed, and provisions of Article 29 and 30 for minorities will be done away with,” Mr. Owaisi said.
