Br Ambedkar Rally

The Rajasthan BSP chief has claimed that people belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes "wouldn't have been oppressed" if the British had ruled India for another 100 years. Speaking at a campaign rally in Jaipur on Thursday, Dharamvir Singh Ashok also said, BR Ambedkar, the architect of our constitution, wouldn't have been able to do...

The massive protest by Dalits in Mumbai has ended after Prakash Ambedkar addressed a gathering at Mumbai's Azad Maidan. Dr BR Ambedkar's grandson and Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar had transformed his "Elgar March" protest into a demonstration at Azad Maidan, after the police denied permission for the rally citing traffic and log...

Mani Shankar Aiyar, who has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "neech aadmi" in a new attack, earned a swift riposte from the Prime Minister, who said at an election rally in Gujarat, "They can call me neech (low), but I will keep doing oonche (high) work." Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi asked Mr Aiyar to apologise to the Prime Minister.

The town of Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh is still tense after a near-riot broke out last week, over a yatra or procession taken out by BJP member of Parliament Raghav Lakhanpal. Six people were injured in clashes during the march, meant to be held in recognition of Dr BR Ambedkar and which violated police orders by entering a Muslim-dominate...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today underlined the need to strengthen rural economy to boost the country's development as he launched a village self-governance campaign in Mhow which, he said, has been inspired by Dr BR Ambedkar's vision.

Virtually sounding the bugle for the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati today attacked SP and BJP, claiming they have "failed" on all fronts, and promised a society free of fear and corruption if she is voted to power.

On the eve of the first phase of assembly elections in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan and B R Ambedkar - one an icon of the two parties of the anti-BJP coalition and the other seen as a Dalit icon -- at a rally in Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long visit to Mumbai where he laid the foundation stone for BR Ambedkar's Memorial and also initiated the construction of two new metro corridors in the city. Wrapping up his visit, PM Modi addressed a public rally at a municipal ground in Bandra Kurla Complex. Here are the highlights of his speech:

Invoking Dalit icons BR Ambedkar and Jagjivan Ram, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will kick off his election campaign in Bihar with rally on September 19 where other top leaders of the grand alliance are likely to be present.

BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will kick off the party's campaign for the Bihar Assembly elections at a mega rally in Patna today. It has been timed to coincide with the 125th birth anniversary of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar.

The Rajasthan BSP chief has claimed that people belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes "wouldn't have been oppressed" if the British had ruled India for another 100 years. Speaking at a campaign rally in Jaipur on Thursday, Dharamvir Singh Ashok also said, BR Ambedkar, the architect of our constitution, wouldn't have been able to do...

The massive protest by Dalits in Mumbai has ended after Prakash Ambedkar addressed a gathering at Mumbai's Azad Maidan. Dr BR Ambedkar's grandson and Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar had transformed his "Elgar March" protest into a demonstration at Azad Maidan, after the police denied permission for the rally citing traffic and log...

Mani Shankar Aiyar, who has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "neech aadmi" in a new attack, earned a swift riposte from the Prime Minister, who said at an election rally in Gujarat, "They can call me neech (low), but I will keep doing oonche (high) work." Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi asked Mr Aiyar to apologise to the Prime Minister.

The town of Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh is still tense after a near-riot broke out last week, over a yatra or procession taken out by BJP member of Parliament Raghav Lakhanpal. Six people were injured in clashes during the march, meant to be held in recognition of Dr BR Ambedkar and which violated police orders by entering a Muslim-dominate...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today underlined the need to strengthen rural economy to boost the country's development as he launched a village self-governance campaign in Mhow which, he said, has been inspired by Dr BR Ambedkar's vision.

Virtually sounding the bugle for the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati today attacked SP and BJP, claiming they have "failed" on all fronts, and promised a society free of fear and corruption if she is voted to power.

On the eve of the first phase of assembly elections in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan and B R Ambedkar - one an icon of the two parties of the anti-BJP coalition and the other seen as a Dalit icon -- at a rally in Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a day-long visit to Mumbai where he laid the foundation stone for BR Ambedkar's Memorial and also initiated the construction of two new metro corridors in the city. Wrapping up his visit, PM Modi addressed a public rally at a municipal ground in Bandra Kurla Complex. Here are the highlights of his speech:

Invoking Dalit icons BR Ambedkar and Jagjivan Ram, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will kick off his election campaign in Bihar with rally on September 19 where other top leaders of the grand alliance are likely to be present.

BJP chief Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will kick off the party's campaign for the Bihar Assembly elections at a mega rally in Patna today. It has been timed to coincide with the 125th birth anniversary of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar.