 In 2018, speaking at a job fair and skill exhibition, he said that he will go ahead with his commitment of developing skills in the youth of India and not bother about the barking stray dogs, referring to groups protesting his earlier "change constitution" remark.In 2018, he criticised the word "secular" and said that BJP government would "amend the Constitution" to remove the word from the Preamble.He has said that Taj Mahal was originally a Shiv Mandir known as Tejo Mahalaya.