Ambedkar Row: Congress Stages Nationwide Protests, Demands Amit Shah’s Resignation

Ambedkar Row: The Congress party has organised a nationwide protest on Thursday, demanding the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah following controversial remarks he made about BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday during the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah hit back at the Congress amid the massive row over his comments on BR Ambedkar during the introduction of the "One Nation One Election" Bill in parliament.

Mr Shah has already accused the Congress of twisting his remarks and at the BJP headquarters this evening, mocked the Congress, saying his resignation will not help the Grand Old Party.

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What did Amit Shah say about BR Ambedkar

It all started from Amit Shah's remarks on Tuesday in Rajya Sabha that Congress leaders would have got a place in heaven had they chanted the name of God rather than following the “fashion of repeating Ambedkar’s name”.

"Abhi ek fashion ho gaya hai - Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar. Itna naam agar bhagwan ka lete to saat janmon tak swarg mil jata (It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar'. If they had taken God's name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven)," Shah had said.

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Amit Shah had also said the BJP is happy that the Congress is taking Ambedkar's name but the party should also speak about its real sentiments towards him.

What PM Modi said

Meanwhile, amid severe backlash from the opposition, PM Modi defended Amit Shah on Wednesday saying, “If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem think their malicious lies can hide their misdeeds of several years, especially their insult towards Dr. Ambedkar, they are gravely mistaken.”

“The people of India have seen time and again 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,” PM Modi said in a post on X.

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