My words twisted; Congress anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday accused the Congress of twisting and distorting his comments in the Rajya Sabha with regard to Constitution framer Bhimrao Ambedkar, attributing it to “the way that the BJP had exposed how the Congress was anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution and anti-reservation.” Addressing a press conference at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national headquarters in New Delhi, Mr. Shah, flanked by his Cabinet colleagues J. P. Nadda, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju, Information and Broadcasting Minister Aswini Vaishnaw and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, said that the BJP will look into the possibility of exploring legal options both inside and outside Parliament against the Congress for twisting his statement. Mr. Shah said that in his speech he had, based on facts, revealed how the Congress was “anti-Ambedkar, anti-Constitution and anti-reservation” and that the Opposition party had, by splicing an 11-second footage from this speech, tried to misrepresent what he had said. “The Congress has done this even in the past, and even Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements have been distorted to mislead the people,” he said. “When all these facts came out, the Congress used its old tricks and made an effort to mislead the society by presenting twisted facts,” Mr. Shah said.