Rahul Gandhi has no fire but Congress playing with fire: Rajnath Singh

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has no fire while his party is playing with fire by attempting to create HinduMuslim divide for electoral dividends Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has saidIn an interview to PTI Singh also indicated that the BJP will implement its bigticket plans like rolling out of the Uniform Civil Code UCC and implementing the One Nation One Election push if it retains power for the third consecutive termThe defence minister also said that he was confident that the National Democratic Alliance NDA will cross 400 seats and the BJP will get over 370 as these projections were made after detailed assessment of the ground situation and not made only for public consumptionOn the overall political landscape the defence minister accused the Congress of attempting to disturb social harmony and trying to create tensions on religious linesThey are attempting to create HinduMuslim divide for electoral gains The Congress is trying to create tensions on religious lines he allegedThe Congress wants to disturb social harmony They look at the Muslim community only as a vote bank I have a suggestion for them politics should not be done only for forming governments The aim of politics should be for nation building he saidRahul Gandhi has no fire but Congress is playing with fire he saidSingh said people of the country will repose their faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJPs tally will improve significantly based on the performance of the government in the last five yearsOur seats will increase in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal and we will get some seats in Tamil Nadu Our account will open in Kerala as well We are winning a good number of seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana the senior BJP leader saidWe will increase our tally in Odisha Jharkhand and Assam We are sweeping Chhattisgarh he said asserting that the BJP will cross the 370markAsked whether the BJPs seats in Maharashtra will come down he did not give a direct reply but said there may be some adjustments here and thereThe BJP leader also came down hard on the Congress for its plan to redistribute wealth saying it will have disastrous consequences for the countrys economyThe concept of redistribution of wealth will trigger recession Argentina and Venezuela implemented it and faced disastrous consequences The investors will lose confidence in India Singh saidOn the BJPs bigticket plans like implementation of the UCC and One Nation One Poll push in if it retains power Singh said it fulfils promises that it makes to the people of IndiaIn its manifesto the BJP pledged to implement the UCC if it returns to power after the general electionsIt also mentioned that the party will move forward with a resolve to realise the idea of One Nation One ElectionWe always fulfil our commitments We will never allow any question mark on our credibility and will not compromise on the countrys unity and integrity We implement whatever we say in our manifestoWe have to do whatever we say Singh saidWe will go for One Nation One Election We will take views of every quarter including all political parties on it he saidOn the UCC the defence minister said even the Constitutionmakers felt a need for it as it is mentioned in the directive principlesThe Congress wants to create fear psychosis they want to use the HinduMuslim card he saidThey do not have any issue They want to form a government by dividing the society in the name of caste creed and religion and they have always done it he allegedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever