Congress to decide 2025 action plan, take up Ambedkar ‘insult’ issue at Belagavi CWC meet
The opposition party asserts that the ‘insult’ to BR Ambedkar by Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be taken up for deliberation at Belagavi and that there will be a ‘strong follow-up’ on the issue
Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh during a press conference, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (PTI Photo)
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In a bid to get battle-ready for challenges ahead, the Congress will decide on an action plan for the next year at its CWC meeting named 'Nav Satyagraha Baithak' being held in Karnataka's Belagavi to mark the 100th anniversary of the Belgaum session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi.
The opposition party asserted that the "insult" to BR Ambedkar by Union Home Minister Amit Shah would be taken up for deliberation at Belagavi and that there would be a "strong follow-up" on the issue.
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Addressing a joint press conference along with Congress general secretary organisation KC Venugopal and AICC media and publicity department head Pawan Khera, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on December 26 had been named 'Nav Satyagraha Baithak' which would see two resolutions being passed.
Ramesh said the Congress is marking the current week as the 'Ambedkar Samman Saptah' against the "insult" of BR Ambedkar by Shah.
He said there is only one solution to the issue which is that the home minister be sacked and must apologise for his remarks.
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Ramesh said that on December 27, a 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan' rally would be held in Belagavi.
The Congress general secretary alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP wanted to change the Constitution and were acting contrary to its spirit.
"When Prime Minister Modi became an MP and entered Parliament, he prostrated on the steps. The result is that the old Parliament building was abandoned and the new building was inaugurated. On November 26 this year, the PM prostrated on the original copy of the Constitution, which means a new Constitution will be brought," Ramesh claimed.
At the presser, Venugopal said the Congress had strongly taken up the issue of the "insult" of Ambedkar by the home minister and had been demanding the sacking of Shah as well as an apology from him.
He said the issue would be strongly taken up in Belagavi and ways to take it forward in the future would also be deliberated upon.
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