Br Ambedkar  

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At Akola in Maharashtra, PM Modi blamed the Congress for not giving Bharat Ratna to Veer Savarkar and BR Ambedkar 

The new statue of Ambedkar was erected within 12 hours at the centre of Vedaranyam town in Tamil Nadu, where the dominant caste community in retaliation vandalised the previous statue due to the torching of a vehicle by a group of Dalit men on Sunday evening (August 25)

Telangana Congress leaders V Hanumantha Rao and Harsha Kumar are now in police custody after they tried to install a statue of Dr BR Ambedkar at Punjagutta centre in Hyderabad.
 

A shocking video has surfaced in which Prakash Ambedkar's alleged supporters are seen beating up an old man for allegedly writing against the Dalit leader. The incident happened in Maharashtra's Amaravati. The video shows the old man to be dragged and hit with slippers by at least three alleged Prakash Ambedkar supporters. Prakash is the grandson of BR Ambedkar and is a known face of the Indian Left-liberals.

PM Narendra Modi's brother Pankaj Modi is campaigning for the BJP in Rameswaram and other parts of Tamil Nadu. He is confident of PM Modi being re-elected
 

Ambedkar inverted Mahatma Gandhi's economic vision. Gandhi wanted the villages to stay as the nodal points of economic activity, but Ambedkar felt that villages as centres of economic activities nurtured caste exploitation.

The Congress government in Chhattisgarh has renamed four out of five Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya schemes after members of the Nehru-Gandhi family: former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi

Angry Dalit members shouted slogans during the Republic Day celebrations in Vijayapura, Karnataka, as the statue of BR Ambdekar was not garlanded.

'The fact that Thambidurai, belonging to a dominant community, can claim himself to be a victim of historical wrongs is a big problem. He quotes Ambedkar and appropriates the sufferings of the Dalits. But nobody sees anything amiss in that, and that is the bigger problem,' says V Subbulakshmi

While the couple had nowhere else to go, they were forced to stay in their relative's bathroom in the same locality in Tumakuru, Karnataka.