Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju accused the Congress of misleading the country by using only a part of Amit Shah's remarks.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju accused the Congress of misleading the country by using only a part of Amit Shah's remarks.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju accused the Congress of misleading the country by using only a part of Amit Shah's remarks.

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Wednesday as opposition members created an uproar and demanded an apology from Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his comments, which they claimed was an insult to B R Ambedkar, reported PTI.

When the house re-assembled at 2 pm after an earlier adjournment, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju accused Congress of misleading the country by using only a part of Amit Shah's remarks in the Rajya Sabha. At this, Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge repeated Shah's remark and said it only showed the minister's disrespect towards the architect of the Constitution.

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Leader of the House J P Nadda rejected Kharge's plea and alleged that Congress had disrespected Ambedkar during his lifetime, which caused him to resign from the Union Cabinet. This led to an uproar as Kharge again rose to counter Nadda. With members of the treasury benches and the opposition raising slogans against each other, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar adjourned the house for the day.

In a statement criticising the Congress for repeatedly taking the name of B R Ambedkar, Amit Shah said that if they had taken God's name so many times, they could have earned a place in heaven. "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.