Reacting to the controversy triggered by his comment on BR Ambedkar, union residence minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused the Congress of distorting his assertion within the parliament. Calling the Congress “anti-Ambedkar”, the BJP chief claimed that former PM Jawaharlal Nehru had hatred for the Dalit icon.
Amit Shah identified that the Congress avoided conferring the Bharat Ratna on BR Ambedkar for a number of a long time. He stated the central authorities backed by the BJP lastly gave the very best civilian award to the late authorized luminary in 1990.
Shah claimed that the Congress was in opposition to Ambedkar and his beliefs.
“Since yesterday, Congress has been presenting the details in a distorted approach, and I condemn it… Congress is anti-BR Ambedkar, it’s in opposition to reservation and the Structure. Congress additionally insulted Veer Savarkar. By imposing the Emergency, they violated all Constitutional values,” Shah stated.
The BJP chief stated Congress governments by no means constructed a memorial for Ambedkar; whereas the BJP developed many websites devoted to him.
“When the dialogue was happening within the parliament, it was proved how the Congress opposed Baba Saheb Ambedkar. How the Congress tried to make enjoyable of Baba Saheb even after his demise… So far as giving Bharat Ratna is worried, Congress leaders have given Bharat Ratna to themselves many occasions. Nehru gave the Bharat Ratna to himself in 1955, and Indira Gandhi gave the Bharat Ratna to herself in 1971. Baba Saheb acquired the Bharat Ratna in 1990 when the Congress get together was not in energy and there was a authorities supported by the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering… Nehru’s hatred in the direction of Ambedkar is well-known,” he added.
Throughout a debate within the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, Amit Shah stated the Congress had made it a style to take Ambedkar’s identify repeatedly. “If they’d taken the identify of God so many occasions as a substitute of Ambedkar, they might have gotten heaven for seven lives,” he stated, triggering an enormous row.
Claiming that the comment is an insult to BR Ambedkar, the Congress-led opposition has demanded Amit Shah’s resignation or elimination.
The opposition staged an enormous protest within the parliament over the controversy right this moment.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi stoutly defended Shah, asserting that the Congress’s “rotten ecosystem” and “malicious lies” can not cover its “misdeeds”.
“They’re clearly stung and surprised by the details he offered, which is why they’re now indulging in theatrics. Sadly, for them, folks know the reality,” Modi stated in a collection of posts on X.
He stated folks of India have seen again and again how one get together, led by one dynasty, indulged in “each doable soiled trick to obliterate Ambedkar’s legacy”.
With inputs from PTI, ANI
