On Saturday, AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal announced the Dr. Ambedkar Scholarship to support the Dalit students.

This scholarship is brought to give support to the higher education of Dalit students. While addressing an event, Former Delhi CM and AAP National convener Arvind Kejriwal mentioned that, “I want to ensure that no person from the Dalit community is deprived of higher education, for this, I am announcing the Dr Ambedkar Scholarship. Now any student from the Dalit community who wants to study in top universities across the world, the Delhi government will bear their expenses after the admission of the students…This scholarship will also be applicable to government employees from the Dalit community.”

He further added, “We are giving an answer to BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah who disrespected Dr BR Ambedkar by announcing the Dr Ambedkar Scholarship.”

Arvind Kejriwal posted on his X handle about the Scholarship. He wrote that, “Our government will bear all the expenses of those Dalit students who want to study abroad. For this, we will start Dr. Ambedkar Samman Scholarship.”

जो दलित छात्र विदेश में पढ़ना चाहते हैं उनका सारा खर्चा हमारी सरकार उठाएगी। इसके लिए हम डॉ. अंबेडकर सम्मान स्कॉलरशिप शुरू करेंगे। pic.twitter.com/Hm11sccXMB

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 21, 2024

What Did Amit Shah Said?

He stated that “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.”

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