‘If you provoke us, we’re like fire’: Mallikarjun Kharge targets Shah over Ambedkar remarks row

Kharge said, “You person to thatch him a lesson. I demanded his resignation… Shah should apologise for his comments.” He besides highlighted the protests held crossed Karnataka implicit the past period condemning the remarks made by the location curate successful Parliament.

Kharge criticised the BJP for blaming the Congress for Ambedkar’s predetermination defeat. “If you provoke us, we are similar fire. You volition get burnt. You cannot survive,” helium said.

Gandhi said that Shah’s remark was an insult to democracy. “Many governments person travel and gone… But till present determination has been nary different authorities whose location curate has insulted Dr Ambedkar lasting wrong Parliament,” she said.

Gandhi attributed specified remarks by BJP leaders to the party’s roots successful an ideology “that insulted the Constitution and held a run against it”. The Congress person alleged that some Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah were against the Constitution. The BJP’s ideology attacks the ideals connected which the state was built, she further said.

Holding a transcript of the Constitution, Gandhi accused the BJP authorities of relentlessly attacking it. She said Rahul Gandhi’s efforts to sphere the law ideals were met with aggregate complaints filed against him successful BJP-ruled states.

The normal was initially scheduled for December 27 past twelvemonth but postponed pursuing the demise of erstwhile premier curate Manmohan Singh. Although Rahul Gandhi was slated to code the event, helium did not be owing to sick health.

Earlier successful the day, Kharge inaugurated a statue of Mahatma Gandhi connected the Suvarna Soudha premises connected the outskirts of Belagavi.