NEW DELHI: AAP supremo and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday lambasted Union home minister Amit Shah for his ‘remarks on BR Ambedkar’, saying that “India will not tolerate this.”
Taking to social media platform ‘X’, Kejriwal said, “See how Amit Shah is making fun of Baba Saheb Ambedkar in the Parliament. These BJP people have become so arrogant that they don’t consider anyone as anything.”
“Yes Amit Shah ji. Baba Saheb is no less than God for every child of this country. I don’t know about heaven after death, but if Baba Saheb’s Constitution was not there, you people would not have allowed the oppressed, downtrodden, poor and Dalits to live on this earth,” he added further.
“Insult to Baba Saheb. India will not tolerate this. Jai Bheem,” Kejriwal wrote in his post.
Kejriwal’s reaction came in response to Shah’s remarks where he said, “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 use Ambedkar’s name)
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.
