Ahmedabad/Lakhimpur Kheri: Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) chief ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Gandhi family of stopping implementation of rights given by BR Ambedkar and even ‘snatching’ Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s right of free speech.
On the 123rd birth anniversary of architect of the Indian Constitution Ambedkar, the BJP leader slammed Congress for ‘insulting him’ and ignoring the plight of Dalits and backwards in the country.
Reaching out to the Dalits, Modi said Rahul Gandhi was “insulting the chief architect of the Constitution and the god of Dalits by taking credits for giving rights and enacting laws in the country.”
“Had Ambedkar not been there, then someone like me would not have been standing before you,” he said and even slammed Jawahar Lal Nehru for refusing to buy even 100 copies of a book written by Ambedkar on Lord Buddha, saying the first Prime Minister of the country had a “poisoned mind” against Ambedkar.
Modi said the Congress governments did “maximum insult” to the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and did not give him Bharat Ratna which was given by the NDA government soon after it came to power.
