Tewari: BJP trying to fiddle with Ambedkar’s legacy

Tribune News Service

Nawanshahr, August 24

Senior Congress leader and Anandpur Sahib MP Manish Tewari today alleged that the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was trying to undermine the legacy of Dr BR Ambedkar by fiddling with the Constitution.

Addressing a public meeting here today, Tewari said the BJP was imposing their hidden agenda that was quite contrary to the idea of India as envisaged by the leaders like Dr Ambedkar.

He said Dr Ambedkar gave the country one of the best constitutions in the world, which is recognised and acknowledged by everyone as it watched and took care of each and every person living in the country irrespective of his caste, creed, colour or religion. “However now the BJP was trying to replace the same constitution and impose its own”, he claimed.

Tewari warned that the Congress and other secular forces in the country would never ever allow such a thing to happen. “India belongs to each and every Indian as everyone has given his blood and sweat to this country”, he said, while adding, the diversity is the strength of this nation and it will be preserved at all costs. Among those present on the occasion included halqa in charge Satvir Singh Palli Jhikki, former MLAs Tarlochan Soond and Mohan Lal among others.