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BJP, Oppn spar over Ambedkar's legacy

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April 15, 2025

Almost a year after the Constitution and its coat pocket edition became the leitmotif of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, political parties and leaders vied with each other on Monday with renewed zeal to celebrate the 135th birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, the man credited with being the primary architect of the document.

- ARCHIS MOHAN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who inaugurated several development projects in Haryana, said that Ambedkar "wanted every poor person to live with dignity, with their heads held high, but the Congress turned the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) into second-class citizens".

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