Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till 2pm on Wednesday amid protests by opposition parties against Union home minister Amit Shah’s remarks on BR Ambedkar during the Constitution debate in the Upper House. The Congress demanded the home minister’s resignation and an apology, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused the opposition of circulating clipped videos and engaging in political gimmicks. Opposition MPs including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, senior party leader Rahul Gandhi, and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi held photos of Ambedkar in the Parliament complex.
Also Read: Simultaneous polls are an imperative for India Concluding a two-day debate on the “Glorious Journey of 75 Years of the Constitution of India”, Shah on Tuesday took a dig at the Congress for repeatedly taking the name of Ambedkar, saying had they taken God’s name so many times they could have earned a place in heaven. “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”, he said during his speech in Rajya Sabha.
Kharge, reacting to Shah’s remarks, said, “We all tried...
when Amit Shah was speaking about Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. He said that if we would have taken God’s name this many times, then we would have gone to heaven seven times. I raised my hand at that time as well, but I wasn’t given a chance to speak then.
We all decided to cooperate and .
