Special Correspondent
Panaji
The national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Alka Gurjar on Saturday said that the Congress party, during its six-decade rule over the country, never gave any respect to the Dalit leader B R Ambedkar, neither during his lifetime,
nor posthumously.
“On the contrary, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru conspired to defeat Ambedkar, as also did not give him deserving position in the Union government,” she claimed.
Gurjar, who is on a Goa visit, was addressing a press conference at the city BJP headquarters, in the presence of state party president, Damu Naik and former Member of Parliament, Narendra Sawaikar, to inform about the countrywide B R Ambedkar Samman Abhiyan launched by the BJP.
Stating that B R Ambedkar was not only a Dalit leader but also leader of the masses across the castes and religions, Gurjar stated that just like the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is trying to bring all the people in the national mainstream under ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ programme, Ambedkar too wanted to take the Dalits to the same level as others.
“However, Pt Nehru prevented him from doing so and even wrote letters to the state governments maintaining that the progress and development of Dalit class would end the merit of the deserving people,” Gurjar claimed, pointing out that Congress treated the Dalits only as vote bank.
Speaking further, the national secretary of BJP said that whenever Congress faces threat, the Congress leaders pretend that the Constitution is under threat.
