Hisar/ New Delhi, April 15 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress on the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, accusing the party of turning Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs into "second-class citizens" while in power.
Amid the political heat over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, Modi sought to put the Congress and its allies opposed to the law in a corner, accusing them of
destroying the Constitution by enacting a Waqf law, now amended, in 2013 above the constitutional values espoused by Ambedkar.
Modi alleged that the Muslim community suffered because of the Congress' appeasement policy. "The Congress made amendments in the Waqf law hurriedly at the end of 2013 so that it could get votes in...