Delhi, December 19, 2024 (Punjab Khabarnama Bureau):The Congress has planned a countrywide protest on Thursday seeking Union home minister Amit Shah’s resignation amid a row related to his remarks on BR Ambedkar, which he made on Tuesday in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Parliament Winter Session.
The Congress will protest across the country in all Pradesh Pradesh Congress Committees (PCC) at state and district headquarter, news agency ANI reported.
Amit Shah’s remarks on BR Ambedkar have stirred a massive political slugfest, with the Congress-led Opposition seizing on the comments to corner the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government.
The attack, which came from almost all opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, DMK, RJD, Left parties, and Shiv Sena-UBT, led to the adjournment of both Houses of Parliament on Wednesday and prompted the BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to defend Amit Shah.
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.
Summary: Congress stages a nationwide protest today, demanding Amit Shah’s resignation over the Ambedkar row.