Congress distorting Shah's remarks on Ambedkar: Kiren Rijiju
New Delhi (PTI): Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday hit out at the Congress for disrupting House proceedings over Amit Shah's remarks on B R Ambedkar and said the opposition was distorting the Home minister's comments.
Displaying posters of Ambedkar, Congress MPs on Wednesday raised slogans in the Lok Sabha demanding Shah's apology.
"... a small clip of Shah's Rajya Sabha speech was under circulation, distorting what he said. It was wrong. I condemn it," Rijiju told reporters here.
He asserted that Shah had clearly said the Congress insulted Babasaheb when he was alive. "To wash their sins, they are now taking name of Ambedkar for political and electoral gains," Rijiu said.
He added that the present Modi government has done a lot to honour Ambedkar. "We respect Ambedkar," the Parliamentary Affairs minister alleged.
"Congress should say why Ambedkar had to resign from the Nehru cabinet. Nehru insulted him that he had to resign... they made him lose Lok Sabha elections," Rijiju alleged.
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Hindu groups to felicitate Shinde, other MLAs for defeating menace of 'vote jihad' in Assembly polls
Nagpur: In a show of support for elected representatives who, according to Hindu groups, fought against the alleged menace of “vote jihad” during the recent Maharashtra Assembly elections, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Maharashtra Mandir Mahasangh are set to felicitate Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, BJP President and Cabinet Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, and other MLAs.
The grand felicitation ceremony, celebrating the “historic victory of devout Hindu representatives who defeated the menace of vote jihad”, will take place on Thursday evening at the Vidarbha Sahitya Sangh’s auditorium near Jhansi Rani Chowk in Nagpur. The event is titled ‘Government of Hindutva Advocates and the Hindutva of the Government,’ informed Sunil Ghanwat, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh State Coordinator of 'Hindu Janajagruti Samiti' and National Convener of 'Mandir Mahasangh'.
“All Hindutva supporters, patriots, and devotees from Nagpur and Vidarbha are invited to attend the program in large numbers,” the statement reads.
The event will see the participation of Shiv Sena leaders including Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, Ministers Bharat Gogawale, Yogesh Kadam, Ashish Jaiswal; BJP Ministers Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Nitesh Rane, Atul Save, Akash Fundkar, Sanjay Savkare, Pankaj Bhoyar; Shiv Sena MLAs Pradeep Jaiswal, Chandrakant Sonawane, Amol Khatal, Balaji Kinikar; BJP MLAs Mangesh Chavan, Sunil Kamble, Satyajit Deshmukh, Atul Bhatkhalkar, Prataprao Adsar, Mahesh Landge, Suresh Bhole, Shankar Jagtap, Sachin Kalyanshetty, Narayanrao Kuche, Sanjay Kelkar, Kalidas Kolambkar, Subhash Deshmukh, and many others.
