Basavanagudi (Karnataka) [India], May 09 (NT): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the second last day of election campaign for Karnataka polls 2018 said that people will reject Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatriya Janata Party.

The Congress scion also attacked the Prime Minister for being unspoken on the heated subject of alleged Dalit atrocities.

He was Addressing a public gathering in Basavanagudi here and said that, "While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay his tribute to BR Ambedkar, he stays quiet when people from SC and ST communities are attacked. People will throw out Narendra Modi and the BJP from Karnataka first, followed by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh."

Continuing his outburst against Modi, “Congress PM Candidate in LS polls 2019” said that the Congress would not let the BJP amend the constitution.

"A minister in Narendra Modi's Cabinet says we will change the Constitution. Whatever happens, we won't let that happen," Rahul Gandhi asserted.

On a related note Last December, Union minister Anant Kumar Hegde sparked the controversy after he said that the BJP is here to “change the Constitution”.

"Some people say the Constitution says secular and you must accept it. We are here to change the Constitution and we'll change it," Hegde had said in December.

Gandhi said Prime Minister Modi's disapproval not in favor of the Congress and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddarmaiah has portrayed the post of the Prime Minister in a bad light.

"You should've seen Congress. We oppose PM, we speak against him but we respect PM's post. He thinks if he speaks against Congress, against Siddaramaiah, his party will be benefited. But this shows PM's post in a bad light, he'll never understand this," he said.

Wooing voters, Rahul Gandhi offered prayers earlier in the day, at Dargah of Hazrat Tawakkal Mastan Shah in Bengaluru.

 For 223 out of 224 of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly constituencies the election in Karnataka will be held on May 12. The election for one constituency has been deferred following the death of B.N. Vijay Kumar, Jayanagar BJP candidate. The counting of votes will take place on May 15.