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Country will not tolerate Ambedkar's insult, HM Shah should apologise: Rahul Gandhi
Dec-18-2024

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said the country will not tolerate Babasaheb Ambedkar's insult and demanded that Home Minister Amit Shah should apologise for his remarks in the Rajya Sabha.

Rahul Gandhi said, ‘Baba Saheb is the architect of the Constitution, a great man who gave direction to the country. The country will not tolerate his insult or the insult to the Constitution framed by him. Home Minister should apologize!’. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, ‘One gets rights by taking the name of Ambedkar ji. Taking the name of Ambedkar ji is a symbol of human dignity. Ambedkar ji's name is a symbol of self-respect of crores of Dalits and deprived people’.

Rahul Gandhi, along with several MPs of the INDIA bloc, protested in Parliament today, demanding an apology from Home Minister Amit Shah for remarks they claimed insulted B.R. Ambedkar. Congress members displayed Ambedkar's posters and raised slogans. The Congress alleged that Shah's remarks in the Rajya Sabha during a debate on the Constitution show that the BJP and the RSS leaders have a ‘lot of hatred’ for Ambedkar and demanded an apology from him.

While, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Opposition for accusing Union Home Minister Amit Shah of insulting BR Ambedkar. PM Modi said, that people have seen ‘how one Party, led by one dynasty, has indulged in every possible dirty trick to obliterate the legacy of Dr. Ambedkar and humiliate the SC/ST communities.’

While speaking during the debate to mark 75 years of the Constitution in Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah said that taking BR Ambedkar's name had become a ‘fashion’ for Opposition leaders now. Shah said, ‘It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar'. If they took God's name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven’. Both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are adjourned for the day amid Opposition uproar over Amit Shah's remarks on B R Ambedkar.


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