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Ambedkar's grandson calls name change move 'wrong'
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar. 30 (ANI): Prakash Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr B R Ambedkar, on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ordered all its state departments and High Court benches in Lucknow and Allahabad to add Ramji to the nam
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Mayawati condemns vandalisation of BR Ambedkar statue
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 8 (ANI): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday condemned the vandalisation of statues of political and ideological figures across the country including Dalit icon BR Ambedkar's statue
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After Lenin and Periyar, Ambedkar's statue vandalised in UP
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 7 (ANI): The vandalisation of statues of political and ideological figures across the country found its latest victim in Dalit icon Dr BR Ambedkar, whose statue was targetted by miscreants in Meerut's Mawana late on Tuesday night.
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Monk, who initiated Ambedkar to Buddhism, dies at 90
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India] November 30 (ANI): Buddhist monk Pragyanand, who taught and initiated Dalit icon Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar to Buddhism, died on Thursday here at the age of 90.
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'Anti-Dalit RSS', BJP conspiring to polarise votes: Congress on
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 20 (ANI): Post Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Mohan Vaidya raising a furore by quoting Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar against reservation, in a belligerent attack the Congress Party on Friday trained guns at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that this is
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