'Remove Amit Shah from cabinet': chaos in K’ntaka assembly
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Belagavi: Over the problematic remarks on Dr BR Ambedkar by Union Home Minister and BJP stalwart Amit Shah, severe chaos broke out in the Karnataka assembly on Thursday.
When the Leader of Opposition, R Ashoka, was speaking during a discussion on the maternal deaths in Ballari and elsewhere in the state, Congress legislator H C Balakrishna interrupted and said he wanted to move a resolution, the news agency PTI reported.
Several Congress MLAs stood up holding photographs of Ambedkar and started raising slogans.
Slogans such as 'Jai Bhim', 'We want justice' and 'Remove Amit Shah from Cabinet' were raised in the House, compelling Assembly Speaker U T Khader to adjourn the House for a brief period.
During a discussion on the Constitution in the Rajya Sabha, Amit Shah said, "Abhi ek fashion ho gaya hai - Ambedkar, "It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar'. If they had taken God's name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven." Shah said the BJP is happy that the Congress is taking Ambedkar's name, but the party should also speak about its real sentiments towards him. He pointed out how Ambedkar had to resign from the first Cabinet, citing his disagreement with the then Congress-led government's policies, including Article 370.
Meanwhile, ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc MPs took out separate protest marches over the Ambedkar issue on Thursday and came face to face at the Makar Dwar of the Parliament House, leading to jostling in which BJP MP Pratap Sarangi was injured.
He was taken to hospital with an injury on his forehead. BJP MPs alleged that Sarangi was pushed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha later told reporters that while he was trying to enter the Parliament House, BJP members pushed and "threatened" him.