Amit Shah Faces Congress Heat over Ambedkar Remarks

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Amit Shah Accuses Rahul Gandhi of Twisting Ambedkar Remarks

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, December 18: Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah charged that the Congress launched motivated campaign against him by twisting his remarks made in the Rajya Sabha on BR Ambedkar. Shah alleged that the Congress at the behest of leader of the Opposition launched campaign against him.

The Congress launched a massive attack on Shah on Wednesday. The Congress accused Shah of disrespecting Ambedkar.

The video clip of Shah saying that the Congress takes the name of Ambedkar repeatedly and if god had been invoked in similar fashion heaven may have been achieved. “Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar karte haen…itni baar Bhagwan ka naam liya hota to swarg mil jaata,” Shah is heard saying in the video clip shared by the Congress leaders.

Shah had replied on the discussion on the 75^th year of the adoption of the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha. The upper house of parliament discussed the Constitution for two days.

The Congress MPs came with placards with images of Ambedkar to parliament. Both the Houses of parliament witnessed uproarious scenes. The Congress demanded apology from Shah and also his resignation. Both the Houses of parliament were adjourned for the day amid din.

Shah addressed a press conference at the BJP headquarters in the evening. He said that he has been targeted by the Congress through clipped video. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders in the past had also been targeted by the Congress in similar fashions by distorting videos,” Shah said. He appealed to the media to bring facts before the people.

The minister in his reply in the Rajya Sabha had accused the Congress of consistently insulting Ambedkar and VD Savarkar. Shah also accused the Congress of insulting Ambedkar.

“Ashok Gopal’s authoritative biography of Dr. Ambedkar was released a few months back. It has already received a prestigious award and drawn rave reviews. On Page 794 footnote 50, Gopal quotes a letter of Jan 18, 1952, to Kamalakant Chitre in which Dr. Ambedkar himself writes that the plot to defeat him in the 1st Lok Sabha elections from Bombay North reserved seat was hatched by Dange and Savarkar, who was inflamed by his proposal for the partition of Kashmir,” Jairam Ramesh, the communication department chief of the Congress, said in a post on X.

Dange, of course, was a noted communist leader, added Ramesh. Shah told reporters that statues and memorials of Ambedkar were put up by the BJP-led state government while the Congress had ignored him. Shah demanded appropriate actions against the Congress for the campaign with clipped video.

The prime minister also strongly defended Shah. In a post, Modi shared a video in which Shah is heard attacking the Congress for being disrespectful to Ambedkar.

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Manish Anand

Manish Anand is a senior journalist with more than two decades of hardcore reporting on beats such as Prime Minister’s Office, Parliament, BJP, Congress, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, and scores of Union Ministries.

His past has been with The New Indian Express, The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle, and The Statesman.

For about 15 years, Manish was also a regular commentator and host for talks on AIR on foreign affairs.

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