BJP’s top leader, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and party’s General Secretary Vinod Tawde vehemently denied the allegation on Tuesday that their party had resolved to cross the 400 mark in the Lok Sabha because it wanted to change the Constitution. The BJP leadership has been giving such a clarification in election rallies and campaigns. It matters most in the states like Maharashtra where the Ambedkarites have found resonance with the Opposition bloc’s allegations that the real purpose of ‘Abki baar 400 paar’ was to alter the Indian Constitution, which was drafted under the leadership of Dalit icon Dr B R Ambedkar.

Countering the Opposition, Shah said in Vidarbha rallies that BJP had, in the past 10 years, used its majority in the Lok Sabha to create anti-terror measures, to abrogate Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and to scrap triple talaq. He said, if voted to power, the Congress would restore what the BJP had scrapped.