Amit Shah said on Tuesday that Congress had made it a fashion to take Ambedkar’s name.
On Wednesday, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray reacted to the row kicked up by Union Minister Amit Shah’s remark on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar, saying the BJP leader displayed “insolence.” He also questioned the silence of the BJP’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners on the controversy.
“The way Amit Shah spoke in the Parliament yesterday, he showed arrogance. He said that taking Ambedkar’s name has become fashionable and that they would have been in heaven if they had taken God’s name as much. Who are you? Ambedkar ji is a personality not bound by any side,” Thackeray was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
“How BJP is insulting someone who gave us the Constitution is not acceptable to us. Will BJP and RSS take action against Amit Shah? Or did they tell Amit to say this? Is this acceptable to other parties that have extended support for Amit Shah, Chandrababu Naidu, Nitish Kumar, or Ajit Pawar? Will Ramdas Athawale continue to be in their cabinet even after this? Will the PM take action against him, or did he tell him to say that?” he added.
Amit Shah said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that Congress had made it a fashion to take Ambedkar’s name. “If they had taken the name of God so many times instead of Ambedkar, they would have got heaven for seven lives,” he said. The remark prompted protests by many INDIA bloc MPs in the parliament.
