UPA's ad facts: Ambedkar's 6 pages vs Nehru's 393
December 06, 2011  12:32

On the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar today, an interesting read on the blog Churumuri by Pritam Sengupta.

For all the lip service it pays 'dalits and the downtrodden', for all tokenism of a Dalit as speaker of Lok Sabha, and for all the buzz about a possible Dalit replacement for Manmohan Singh as prime minister, the Congress-led UPA government has issued a measly six pages of ads in 12 newspapers to mark the birth anniversary of the father of the Indian Constitution -- and the icon of Dalits Dr BR Ambedkar.

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