PM Modi should sack Amit Shah if he has any respect for statute: Malliakarjun Kharge | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has any respect for the Constitution, then he should sack home minister Amit Shah by midnight for “insulting Ambedkar“, else all his claims would appear to be mere pretence and in line with the thoughts of RSS stalwarts. He said BJP has again proved it believes in Manusmriti and not Constitution.
Kharge warned if Shah and BJP netas continued making such statements, “the country will be on fire… that disrespect of Ambedkar would not be tolerated” and that people “are ready to lay down their lives” in support of Ambedkar.
“What Shah’s statement implies is that Ambedkar is not a great man that the opposition keeps chanting his name instead of remembering God. He clearly wanted to disparage Ambedkar and his Constitution,” he said.
He also lamented that the PM chose to defend Shah with a flurry of posts on X.
“What was the need for it? You should have sacked the person who disparaged Ambedkar. But Modi and Shah are thick friends and support the misdeeds of each other,” he said. Kharge said MPs take oath on the Constitution to become ministers, and they have no right to be in the Cabinet if they dishonour the holy book.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said, “They had said earlier that they will change the Constitution. They are against Ambedkar and his ideology. Their whole work is to finish off Ambedkar’s contribution and the Constitution.”
Independent netas and Dalit MPs Chandra Shekhar Azad of ASP and Thol Thirumavalavan of VCK said Shah has insulted Ambedkar’s struggle for social justice.
The row is likely to consume the remaining two days of the winter session, with Congress and regional parties agitating on their turf, especially Congress which led a march to the governor’s house in all states.