PM Modi fires on Congress

New Delhi, Apr 04: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has took a dig at the Congress for always doing politics in the name of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar but ignoring his contributions, he said here on Today.

While Speaking at a programme to mark the inauguration of a building of Western Court Annexe in Parliament complex, Modi accalimed it was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government that decided to have two memorials installed at two places in the capital.

Without naming the Congress-led UPA, he said it could not happen as the governments that followed Vajpayee showed little interest and ignored Ambedkar and his contributions.

"After that, the governments ran like that... Everybody is always ready to do politics in the name of Babasahib. But nobody gave him the kind of respect and paid tributes to him as much as this government did," the Prime Minister said.