'Fatwas' being issued from mosques against BJP, claims party's Solapur candidate

Ram Satpute the BJPs candidate from Solapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra has alleged that fatwas were being issued from mosques in Solapur to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 reported news agency PTISatpute who is facing off against Congress Praniti Shinde the daughter of veteran leader Sushilkumar Shinde made the claim while speaking to a Marathi news channel reported PTIFatwas are being issued from mosques in Solapur to defeat Modi ji Maulavis are reaching out to voters asking them to defeat Modi ji he said reported PTIMeanwhile BJP general secretary Vinod Tawde on Tuesday claimed that like former prime minister Manmohan Singh Congress leader Rahul Gandhis agenda is that the minorities should have the first right to the countrys wealth and not tribals or Dalits reported PTIHe was replying to a question about the manifesto of the NCP led by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar a BJP ally which mentions a castebased census Congress too has been demanding such a surveyCastebased census is not Rahul Gandhis agenda His agenda is what Manmohan Singh had stated earlier minorities have the first right to the countrys wealth Tawde told reportersBJP welcomed anyone for a debate on Prime Minister Narendra Modis remarks in this regard Tawde addedI am using the words minorities he Manmohan Singh had said very clearly that Adivasis and Dalits would not get anything And there is no comment on it by Rahul Gandhi Sonia Gandhi Mallikarjun Kharge which means they approve of it Does it mean that Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole and his allies Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray also want the same thing that Singh had said he askedAsked about oppositions allegation that the BJP lowered the standard of the contest with the unopposed election in the Surat Lok Sabha constituency Tawde said If a candidate files nomination papers with errors it does not mean standards of the campaign were lowered We had even requested that independent candidates withdraw their nominations before filing How can such a request be termed as lowering the campaign standardsThe BJP candidate was declared winner in Surat after the nomination of his Congress rival was rejected as his proposers disowned their signatures on the form and all other candidates subsequently pulled out of the raceTawde also alleged that Congress candidate from South Goa Viriato Fernandes had said that the countrys Constitution should not be applicable to GoaA Congress leader in Karnataka also made a similar statement It is a fact that the countrys Constitution was amended 80 times during the Congress regimeprime minister Narendra Modi started the celebration of Constitution Day Unfortunately Rahul Gandhi is continuously trying to mislead people When there is no other issue Congress starts a conversation about Constitution changing the BJP leader saidWith inputs from PTI