'Disrespected Ambedkar But Roam Around Carrying His Photo': Shah's Salvo At Congress In MP's Shivpuri

Amit Shah claimed that Congress practices the "four Cs," namely corruption, commission, communalism, and criminalization, and that the party disrespects Babasaheb Ambedkar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday (November 4) that the Congress practises the "4Cs" of corruption, commission, communalism, and criminalisation, and that the party disrespects eminent jurist and social reformer Babasaheb Ambedkar. Addressing a rally in Karera, Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, where elections will be held on November 17, Shah said that if the Congress wins power, it will end welfare schemes.

"The Congress adheres to the four Cs: corruption, commission, communal riots, and criminalization. The Congress disrespected Babasaheb Ambedkar but roam around carrying his photograph. The Congress never gave him the Bharat Ratna and always conspired to keep him out of Parliament," Shah was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

"Our government came to power and we bestowed Bharat Ratna on Babasaheb Ambedkar (in 1990 when a non-Congress National Front government also including the BJP under VP Singh was in place)," Shah claimed.

According to a PTI report, praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shah stated that surgical strikes were carried out on terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September 2016 to avenge the Uri attack, which killed 19 soldiers.

Shah claimed that the Congress-led UPA government under Dr Manmohan Singh used to remain silent in the face of such attacks, but the Modi regime responded with air and surgical strikes, the report said. 

Attacking MP Congress chief Kamal Nath, Shah stated that the latter would not be CM after the Assembly elections.

"And if he becomes CM, then the BJP government's Ladli Behna Yojana (in which women get Rs 1,250 per month as aid) and welfare schemes meant for farmers will be stopped," he said, as reported by PTI. 

According to him, the state's budget outlay in 2002 (after nearly a decade of Congress rule) was Rs 23,000 crore, while it is now Rs 3.18 lakh crore, the report said. 

Except for the period between December 2018 and March 2020, when Nath was CM of a Congress-led coalition, the BJP has ruled in MP since 2003.

Previous Congress governments, according to Shah, turned MP into a "BIMARU" state, whereas the BJP brought about development by working for farmers, Dalits, tribals, OBCs, women, and youth.

The results of the MP Assembly elections will be announced on December 3.