“If the Congress and its rotten ecosystem think their malicious lies can hide their misdeeds of several years, especially their insult towards Dr. Ambedkar, they are gravely mistaken!” he wrote on X.

“The people of India have seen time and again how one Party, led by one dynasty, has indulged in every possible dirty trick to obliterate the legacy of Dr. Ambedkar and humiliate the SC/ST communities,” he added.

The prime minister accused the Congress of denying Bharat Ratna to Ambedkar and also denying space to his portrait in Parliament’s Central Hall.

“The list of the Congress’ sins towards Dr. Ambedkar includes: Getting him defeated in elections not once but twice, Pandit Nehru campaigning against him and making his loss a prestige issue, denying him a Bharat Ratna, denying his portrait a place of pride in Parliament’s Central Hall,” Modi said.

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The prime minister further added: “Congress can try as they want but they can’t deny that the worst massacres against SC/ST Communities have happened under their regimes. For years, they sat in power but did nothing substantive to empower the SC and ST communities.”

What Amit Shah said?

The Congress party has accused Union home minister Amit Shah of insulting BR Ambedkar during his speech in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday and demanded an apology from him.

Shah, in his address in the Rajya Sabha at the conclusion of a two-day discussion in Rajya Sabha on 75 years of the Constitution on Tuesday, had lashed out at the Congress party and said that it had become a ‘fashion’ for the party to take Ambedkar’s name.

“Abhi ek fashion ho gaya hai – Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar. Itna naam agar bhagwan ka lete to saat janmon tak swarg mil jata (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, taking a swipe at the opposition.

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Several Congress leaders, including Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, lashed out at Shah over the remarks.

Gandhi, in a post on X, wrote that those who believe in Manusmriti will definitely be at odds with Ambedkar.

Kharge said that the “insult” of Babasaheb Ambedkar by the home minister “has once again proven that the BJP-RSS were against the tricolour, their forefathers opposed the Ashok Chakra and that the people of the Sangh Parivar wanted to implement Manusmriti instead of the Constitution of India from the very first day.

Kharge also demanded Shah’s resignation. “He (Amit Shah) has insulted Baba Saheb Ambedkar and the Constitution. His ideology of Manusmriti and RSS makes it clear that he does not want to respect Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s Constitution. We condemn this, and we demand his resignation. He should apologise to the people of the country…He should resign from his position,” he said.