Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party has always tried to follow the principles of BR Ambedkar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that he belongs to a party which can never insult the chief architect of the Constitution.
Samajwadi Party MP Iqra Hasan criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remark on BR Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha saying that his speech clearly shows BJP has no belief in the Constitution and they keep breaking it.
Speaking to ANI, Pathak said, "It is not new for the BJP to insult the Constitution... The words used by Amit Shah in the Parliament are unfortunate. The Constitution is the base of our country. So much hatred towards the person who made the Constitution?... We demand that the BJP and Amit S
Congress MP Praniti Shinde on Wednesday condemned Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks on Baba Saheb Ambedkar. She added that BJP and RSS have always "hated the tricolour and the Constitution".
Accusing the Congress of being "anti-BR Ambedkar, anti-reservation and anti-Constitution," Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the opposition party has been presenting facts about his speech in Rajya Sabha in a distorted way.
"The threat of Naxalism is not limited to remote areas only. Many front organizations have been formed. They are trying to shake the faith in the Constitution through an ecosystem. Many of these organizations try to rescue the arrested Naxalites. They create a safe haunt for them," he said.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remark on Ambedkar, saying that how BJP is "insulting" someone who gave the Constitution is not acceptable.
Rajya Sabha LoP and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday criticised Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remark on Babasaheb Ambedkar demanding an apology from Shah for his remarks during the Constitution debate in the Rajya Sabha.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended Amit Shah's remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar and said that Shah exposed the Congress' dark history of insulting Ambedkar after which they were clearly stung and stunned by the facts he presented.
Kolkata Police on Wednesday detained Congress workers as they held a protest against Union Minister Amit Shah's statement on Bharat Ratna BR Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha.
The vote results were announced by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, following Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal's formal introduction of the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024. He agreed to send the bill to a JPC in response to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement.