Ambedkar and Modi are "Brahmins" - Gujarat Speaker
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Ahmedabad: Gujarat Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi has described both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dr. B R Ambedkar as "Brahmins". He was addressing a "Mega Brahmin Business Summit" held in Gandhinagar on Saturday.
Trivedi who spoke in the presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said that Brahmin community has never been "power hungry" and was instrumental in the success of kings such as Chandragupta Maurya, and of Lord Ram and Lord Krishna.
"Shepherd of Gokul -is now referred as an OBC- who made this OBC a god? It was Sandipani Rishi, a Brahmin," Trivedi said, referring to Lord Krishna.
Trivedi compared Brahmins to the "cream that settles on top of milk when it is boiled". Towards the end of his speech Trivedi said,"I am not at all reluctant to say Ambedkar is also a Brahmin. Ambedkar is a Brahmin because his surname Ambedkar, a Brahmin surname, was given by his teacher, a Brahmin. There is nothing wrong in calling a learned person a Brahmin. In that context, I will say proudly that Modiji is also a Brahmin".