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No govt in past 'insulted' Ambedkar the way Amit Shah did: Priyanka Vadra

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..... No govt in past 'insulted' Ambedkar the way Amit Shah did: Priyanka Vadra
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Dated:- 21-1-2025
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> Belagavi (Karnataka), Jan 21 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said no government in the past had insulted the Constitution and its architect B R Ambedkar inside Parliament the way Union Home Minister Amit Shah had. >She alleged that the BJP wanted to "weake .....

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..... n" the Constitution and its institutions. >"Many governments have come and gone, including non-Congress governments, but no government had a minister who stood in Parliament and insulted Ambedkar," Priyanka Gandhi said at the 'Gandhi Bharat' event organised in Belagavi. >The Congress organised the event to commemorate the centenary of the lone Congress session Mahatma Gandhi had chaired as the p .....

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..... arty’s president in 1924. >Themed as 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan', the event targetted Union Home Minister Amit Shah for "insulting" the Indian Constitution and its architect B R Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha recently Vadra said people never imagined that Ambedkar would be "insulted" inside Parliament. By doing so, Shah had "insulted" the country and the freedom fighters who sacrificed ever .....

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..... ything for it, she alleged. >According to her, Shah dared to "insult" Ambedkar and the Constitution because, while the country fought for independence, another ideological stream emerged that was "anti-constitution". >Vadra also alleged that RSS members had burned Ambedkar’s effigy and criticised him. >She said the BJP, being the offspring of the RSS, felt emboldened to "insult" Ambedkar and hi .....

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..... s Constitution. > "However, in 2024, the people taught the BJP a lesson, which was good because it scared Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After that, when he went to Parliament, he bowed before the Constitution. You made him do this," she said. >Noting that the BJP's priorities are not the country, the Constitution, democracy, or its people, she said Modi and Shah are "anti-Constitution" because .....

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..... their ideologies go against it and the diversity of the country. >"They are against the Constitution because their founder and ideology mocked the Constitution and the national flag, calling them foreign and inauspicious," Vadra said. >She also alleged that when the BJP came to power at the Centre, it constituted a Constitution Review Committee. >"The BJP is against the Constitution, reservatio .....

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..... n, and social justice. They want to weaken the judiciary and the RTI Act. They amended the SEBI Act to enable more corruption. They weakened the Lokpal Bill and the Election Commission of India," Vadra alleged. >She further stated that in BJP-ruled states, atrocities against women are high, as the party protects criminals rather than victims. >The Wayanad MP also said the BJP amended labour laws .....

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..... , stripping the working class of their rights. >She added that the BJP brought laws that would have broken the farmers' backbone. >"The farmers demonstrated, and 700 farmers died during the agitation. Then they (the BJP) backtracked just before the elections. All their policies are anti-constitution and will impact your day-to-day life," she told the crowd. PTI GMS SSK ROH
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