Parties invoke Ambedkar’s name only to get votes, PM alleges

Taking a direct reference to the Opposition Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that political parties (read: the Congress) in the country were using Dr. Ambedkar’s name and deeds mainly to get votes from the people.

Inaugurating Dr. Ambedkar International Centre at Janpath, New Delhi yesterday, Modi termed Ambedkar’s contribution to nation-building as ‘highly significant’.  “Efforts were made to show his contribution as insignificant but all those efforts which attempted to show him in poor light ended up in colossal failures. A few political parties, however, continue to invoke Ambedkar’s name mainly to get votes.

“It was they who had earlier attempted to distort history by not giving Ambedkar his righteous place. I have complete faith in today’s youths; their line of thinking is very different which would obliterate all the diseases which are plaguing the society,” Modi said during his forceful speech.

Taking on Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his ‘Shiv Bakht’ remark, Modi said that those who seek people’s votes in the name of Dr. Ambedkar remained unaware of what Ambedkar fourght for and what schemes of the great leader were in progress.