RSS Celebrates Ambedkar Jayanti Woos Dalits

Bombay: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s community dinners and other programmes to forge closer links with the dalits marked the Ambedkar Jayanti celebration here. At the main function in South Bombay. K. S. Hegde, Vice-President of B. J. P. pledged his party’s unequivocal and dedicated support to all efforts to trans- late into reality Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s dream of a new social order, cured of the cancer of untouchability and casteism. The new B.J.P. Mayor. Dr. Prabhakar Pal, assured that a statue of Dr. Ambedkar would be erected on the Chaitya-Bhoomi (the cremation ground near Shivaji Park where Babasaheb was cremated) before December 6, 1982, the leader’s death anniversary. Addressing a meeting at subürban Goregaon, Dattaji Shinde, Chief of BJP’s Dalit Cell, said it was improper to oppose reservations and other facilities to the Harijans.