POLITICS

Ahead of Delhi elections, several posts on social media are going viral with claims that former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Aravind Kejriwal said that BR Ambedkar was drunk while drafting the Constitution of India. The post included a brief black-and-white clip of Kejriwal addressing the public in Hindi while the translated version reads: “We ...

Soon after Union home minister Amit Shah’s remarks on B R Ambedkar in parliament, the Opposition has been up in arms against the BJP staging protests in and outside the Parliament building. One such protest on Thursday resulted in pushing and jostling in which some MPs were hurt. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the Lok Sabha Speaker that he ...