Amid Opposition protest against Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday accused the Congress of insulting BR Ambedkar, not giving him Bharat Ratna and alleged they defeated him twice in polls as part of a conspiracy. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Rijiju highlighted that yesterday, Amit Shah clearly showed a sense of our reverence for Ambedkar in his speech. “He also said how Congress insulted Ambedkar ji when he was alive. The Congress party did not award him with Bharat Ratna for so many years and along with that, the Congress party insulted Baba Saheb and defeated him in 1952 in an election under a conspiracy. After that, in the by-election that took place in Vidarbha, Congress defeated Ambedkar. If Congress had not defeated him, Baba Saheb would have been a part of this Parliament even after 1952,” Kiren Rijiju said.
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