The Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine 'One Nation, One Election' Bill will have 21 members from Lok Sabha including Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari, NCP's Supriya Sule, TMC's Kalyan Banerjee and BJP's PP Chaudhary, Bansuri Swaraj and Anurag Singh Thakur,
"Home Minister Amit Shah has insulted Baba Saheb, and the country cannot tolerate this. Baba Saheb Ambedkar is like God. He should apologize for this, and the party should remove him from his post," Aaditya Thackrey told reporters.
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.
BJP MP Kiran Choudhry on Wednesday defended Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on BR Ambedkar in Rajya Sabha and said that Congress knows they have been exposed and are protesting to hide their embarrassment.
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.
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.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai and other leaders were detained by police who were holding a protest march in Lucknow against the state government.
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 bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, proposes simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies across India. However, the proposal has faced strong resistance from Opposition parties, who voiced concerns about its potential impact on democracy.
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.
Rajya Sabha MP and former Union Minister Sharad Pawar, along with a group of farmers, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday.