Br Ambedkar  

Babasaheb Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer who campaigned against social discrimination towards the untouchables (Dalits) and supported the rights of women and workers. He died on December 6, 1956.

President Ram Nath Kovind said it was in 2015, the 125th birth anniversary year of Bhimrao Ambedkar that the central government of India decided to celebrate November 26, as 'Constitution Day' every year

Today is a historic day. 70 years ago, we adopted our great Constitution. The holy book of the nation is an amalgamation of our traditions, cultures, practices, preferences, etc. It is also a solution to the problems we face, said PM Modi.

November 26 of every year is celebrated as Constitution Day, as it is the day on which the Constitution was adopted. It was first celebrated in 2015, as a tribute to Father of the Constitution BR Ambedkar. The Indian Constitution that has over 90,000 words is the work of 271 men and women who were part of the constituent assembly that drafted it.

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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