Kiren Rijiju accuses Nehru, Congress of insulting BR Ambedkar amid debate on Structure in Lok Sabha | India Information

Asserting that Mahatma Gandhi had requested Nehru to incorporate Ambedkar within the first Cupboard together with Syama Prasad Mookerji, Rijiju mentioned that as somebody fascinated about economics, Ambedkar needed a ministry the place he might contribute to the economic system.

“He instructed Nehru that his first precedence was economic system, however he didn’t get these ministries. He was additionally not included in any Cupboard committee. He obtained pissed off that he was not being given any alternative. He was additionally not given a planning portfolio. He mentioned he was not fascinated about a decorative portfolio,” Rijiju mentioned, obliquely looking for accountable Nehru for his resignation.

Current writings on Ambedkar’s resignation, together with a bit written by Ram Madhav for The Indian Specific, see opposition to the Hindu Code Invoice as the rationale behind the social reformer’s transfer.

Rijiju mentioned Ambedkar needed to return as an MP, however the Congress ensured his defeat within the elections. He asserted that Ambedkar had written that Nehru, the chief of the Congress, had by no means spoken concerning the welfare of the Scheduled Castes even as soon as, although he did have sympathies in direction of Muslims, and questioned what sympathies the Dalits might anticipate from the Congress as a celebration.

Rijiju added that whereas Ambedkar’s view on reservation was concerning the primacy of social justice, for Nehru it was a short lived measure for the combination of those teams.

“Until 1990, why did you not give Bharat Ratna to Babasaheb Ambedkar? Nehru and Indira Gandhi gave themselves Bharat Ratna. It was the VP Singh authorities that gave Bharat Ratna to Babasaheb. He was the primary one to deserve Bharat Ratna,” Rijiju charged, including, “Modi-ji gave prominence to 5 teerth sthals (locations of pilgrimage) associated to Dr Ambedkar. His Mhow birthplace was developed, the home the place he lived in London was bought and declared Shiksha Bhoomi.”

“The place the place he handed away is being developed as Parinirvan Bhoomi. The Babasaheb Ambedkar Worldwide Memorial has come up. In Mumbai, we’re creating the Chaitya Bhoomi of Babasaheb. A 430-foot statue of Ambedkar is developing in Mumbai. It is going to be seen from 25-30 km away too.”

He mentioned that whereas Dr Ambedkar struggled in opposition to untouchability, he had no enmity with Hinduism, and had additionally confronted discrimination from Muslims, Christians, and Parsis. “In 1961, Nehru wrote to all CMs that if we promote reservation, the gifted will endure. Nehru considered expertise, however this could not occur at the price of the deprived,” the minister mentioned.

Rijiju added that after the Mandal Fee report got here out in 1980, it was placed on the again burner for 10 years. “It was the VP Singh authorities supported by the BJP that determined to implement it. Everyone knows what Rajiv Gandhi and Nehru mentioned. You communicate the other of it right now however don’t say that you just don’t agree with their views,” he said.

The Union Minister for Minority Affairs questioned why some went in a foreign country and mentioned that Muslims can’t go to dargahs and Sikhs to gurdwaras in right now’s India – hinting at an announcement by Rahul Gandhi whereas addressing the diaspora in Washington DC in September that the struggle was about whether or not a Sikh can be allowed to put on a turban or go to a gurudwara in India.