Amit Shah Ambedkar Comment Row: The controversy surrounding the remarks of Union Residence Minister Amit Shah on BR Ambedkar within the Rajya Sabha does not appear to die down quickly, because the opposition is making steady efforts to step up its agitation over it.
The Congress is ready to prepare nationwide protests on December 24 (Tuesday) towards the remarks of the senior Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief.
All occasion members of Parliament (MPs) and Central Working Committee (CWC) members are additionally going to carry press conferences on December 22 (Sunday) and 23 (Monday) on Shah’s feedback.
Basic Secretary (Group) Okay C Venugopal has issued a round to all occasion leaders. Within the round accessed by ANI, it was talked about {that a} ‘Babasaheb Ambedkar Samman March’ will probably be taken out in each district of the nation.
The march will begin with garlanding a statue of Ambedkar and can proceed until a memorandum is submitted to respect District Magistrates (DM).
Within the press conferences, the MPs and CWC members are set to deal with reporters of their respective constituencies.
Through the Parliament winter session, which concluded yesterday, INDIA bloc MPs took out a number of protests since HM Amit Shah’s remarks in Parliament on December 18, criticizing Congress for making it a ‘trend’ to take Ambedkar’s title.
“If they’d taken the title of God so many occasions as a substitute of Ambedkar, then they might have gotten heaven for seven lives,” Shah had mentioned.
The grand outdated occasion lashed out on the BJP and Shah, demanding an apology and his resignation for his remarks, calling it an “insult” to Ambedkar.
Through the protests in Parliament, the BJP took out parallel protests to Congress, in flip accusing the BJP of insulting the legacy of India’s first regulation minister.
Amid the protests of each side, a face-off happened on the premises of Parliament. The confrontation left two BJP MPs, Pratap Sarangi and Mukesh Rajput, injured. Furthermore, Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that he was pushed too.
Kharge alleged that BJP MPs pushed him whereas making an attempt to enter Parliament throughout a face-off. Addressing a press convention with Rahul Gandhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, who’s Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, alleged that Amit Shah interacted with the media with out information about his remarks pertaining to Ambedkar.
“The statements that the federal government and particularly the Prime Minister and Union Residence Minister Amit Shah are making about Dr. BR Ambedkar are very unhappy, and he (Amit Shah) addressed the press convention yesterday with out wanting on the information. They need to have a look at the information earlier than abusing Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. BR Ambedkar,” he mentioned.