Nation remembers Baba Saheb
Nation remembers Baba Saheb on his 121st birth anniversary
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Several commemorative functions are being held across the nation to mark the occasion.
President
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh, UPA Chariperson Sonia Gandhi, Senior BJP leader LK
Advani and other dignitaries paid floral tributes at his statute at the
Parliament House. Tributes were also paid at the Central hall of the
Parliament.
A jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, historian and prolific writer, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar spent
his whole life fighting against social discrimination and caste system.
He was the chairman of the constitution drafting committee and the
first Law minister of Independent India.
Ambedkar was posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna in 1990.
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