The Trinamool Congress has moved a privilege movement towards Home Minister Amit Shah
New Delhi:
Amid the huge row over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar, the Trinamool Congress has moved a privilege discover towards him and mentioned he had undermined the legacy of the Constitution’s architect and Parliament’s dignity.
Derek O’Brien, chief of the Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha, has moved the discover below Rule 187. The privilege discover comes amid an all-out Opposition offensive towards the Home Minister, accusing him of insulting the Dalit icon in his speech within the Upper House yesterday.
While talking in the course of the debate to mark 75 years of the Constitution, Mr Shah yesterday mentioned that taking BR Ambedkar’s identify had develop into a “vogue” for Opposition leaders now. “It has develop into a vogue to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar’. If they took God’s identify so many instances, they’d have gotten a spot in heaven,” he mentioned. “Take his identify 100 instances extra, however I wish to say what are your sentiments about him.” Mr Shah mentioned BR Ambedkar needed to resign from the primary Cabinet following his disagreement with the Jawaharlal Nehru-led authorities.
The remarks sparked an enormous row, with leaders of the Congress and different Opposition events accusing Mr Shah of insulting the Dalit icon. When the Parliament met right now, MPs from Opposition events, held images of BR Ambedkar and staged a protest. While BJP leaders accused the Congress of circulating a brief video clip that didn’t present Mr Shah’s remarks on how the Congress allegedly sidelined BR Ambedkar, Opposition leaders stepped up the assault on the ruling get together and demanded the Home Minister’s resignation.
As the Opposition tried to nook the federal government and demanded Mr Shah’s resignation and an apology, the BJP management launched a counterstrike led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a six-point thread on X, the Prime Minister mentioned the Congress and its “rotten ecosystem” had been “gravely mistaken” in the event that they thought “malicious lies” might conceal their insult of the architect of the Constitution. “If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem suppose their malicious lies can conceal their misdeeds of a number of years, particularly their insult in the direction of Dr. Ambedkar, they’re gravely mistaken! The individuals of India have seen repeatedly how one Party, led by one dynasty, has indulged in each potential soiled trick to obliterate the legacy of Dr. Ambedkar and humiliate the SC/ST communities,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
The Prime Minister added in his publish that the checklist of the Congress’s “sins” in the direction of BR Ambedkar contains: “getting him defeated in elections not as soon as however twice, Pandit Nehru campaigning towards him and making his loss a status challenge, denying him a Bharat Ratna, denying his portrait a spot of satisfaction in Parliament’s Central Hall.”
The masks has fallen!
As Parliament displays on 75 superb years of the Constitution, HM @AmitShah selected to TARNISH this event with DEROGATORY remarks towards Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, that too within the temple of Democracy.
This is a show of BJP’s CASTEIST and ANTI-DALIT…
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) December 18, 2024
Earlier, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee slammed the Home Minister, saying that the “masks has fallen”. “As Parliament displays on 75 superb years of the Constitution, HM @AmitShah selected to TARNISH this event with DEROGATORY remarks towards Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, that too within the temple of Democracy. This is a show of BJP’s casteist and anti-Dalit mindset. If that is how they behave after being decreased to 240 seats, think about the harm they’d’ve inflicted if their dream of 400 seats had been realised. They’d have rewritten historical past to completely erase Dr. Ambedkar’s contributions,” she mentioned in a publish on X.
“HM Amit Shah’s remarks are an insult to the thousands and thousands who look as much as Babasaheb for steering and inspiration. But what else are you able to count on from a celebration that has internalised hate and bigotry? Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is the Father of the Constitution, this outrageous comment is just not solely an outright assault on him however all members of the Drafting Committee of the Constitution, which symbolised India’s unity in variety with members from all castes, creeds, ethnicities, and religions,” Ms Banerjee mentioned.