"Demonstrated to remember Ambedkar ji who is pillar of Constitution": Congress MP on protest against Amit Shah's remarks

New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): After the Opposition held a protest against Amit Shah's remarks on BR Ambedkar, Congress MP Kiran Kumar Chamala said on Wednesday that they demonstrated to remember Ambedkar Ji who is the pillar of the Constitution.
Speaking to ANI, Chamala claimed that Amit Shah's remarks show that the BJP-RSS does not like the Constitution and tricolour of the country.
"The way Amit Shah spoke last night in the Rajya Sabha, clearly shows that he does not want to take the name of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar who has written the Constitution...Today, we demonstrated to remember Ambedkar ji who is the pillar of the Constitution...It clearly shows that the BJP-RSS doesn't like the Constitution and tricolour of this country. They have their own ideas which they want to implement. But people have realised that in these elections, that is why, they have not given them a proper mandate to make sure that they cannot change the Constitution," he said.
Speaking on the Home Minister's remarks, Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge demanded the resignation of Amit Shah.
"When Amit Shah was talking about Dr BR Ambedkar, he said 'You people keep chanting the name of Ambedkar 100 times, if you took the name of God these many times, you would have gone to heaven 7 times'. This means that taking the name of Baba Saheb Ambedkar is a crime and his intention was to oppose the Constitution made by Baba Saheb Ambedkar. I opposed to this but I was not given the opportunity...Since proceedings of the House on Baba Saheb Ambedkar were underway, I decided to remain silent...I demand his resignation," Kharge said.
However, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju alleged that the Congress had taken a small clip from the speech, distorted it and made it viral.
Addressing the media after the adjournment of both houses, Rijiju asserted that Babasaheb Ambedkar will always remain revered by them.
"Congress should first answer why, in 1951, Babasaheb Ambedkar had to resign from Nehru's cabinet. Congress and its allies have taken a small clip from Amit Shah's speech in the Rajya Sabha yesterday, distorted it, and made it viral. I want to condemn it. Yesterday, Amit Shah clearly stated how Congress humiliated and disrespected Ambedkar while he was alive. I want to refute this distorted clip that is being circulated today," he said.
This came after Amit Shah lashed out at the Congress party and said that it had become a 'fashion' for the party to take Ambedkar's name.
"If they had taken the name of God so many times instead of Ambedkar then they would have got heaven for seven lives," Shah said. (ANI)