Congress files breach of privilege notice against Amit Shah for ‘insulting’ BR Ambedkar
The Opposition party has been demanding the Union home minister’s resignation.
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The Congress on Thursday submitted a breach of privilege notice in the Rajya Sabha against Union Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly insulting BR Ambedkar during his recent speech on the Constitution in the Upper House.
Over the past two days, the Opposition party has been demanding Shah’s resignation, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader had insulted Ambedkar. Party leaders also shared on social media video clips of the comment made by Shah in his speech on Tuesday.
“It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar,” the home minister was heard saying in the clip. “If they had taken God’s name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven.”
Shah, however, alleged that the Congress had presented a distorted version of his speech in the Rajya Sabha.
In a notice to the Rajya Sabha chairperson on Thursday, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge demanded that breach of privilege proceedings be initiated against Shah for “derogatory” remarks against Ambedkar.
Kharge said that Shah’s “wordings as well as the tone and tenor” were “satirical” and in “bad taste”.
The notice said: “To use the name of Dr BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of Constitution of India, is a clear cut insult to Dr Ambedkar. These remarks which have been made on the floor...
