Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Thursday that Rohith Vemula was forced to commit suicide “for talking about B R Ambedkar among students” and demanded that the “two ministers” responsible for it be sacked.
He also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking whether the Dalit icon’s dreams would be fulfilled by merely garlanding his portraits and said “there was no freedom of speech in the country”.
Those who are making a mockery of the Constitution should not “pretend” that they respect Ambedkar by garlanding him at his birthplace. They are dividing the country, Kejriwal said in an apparent reference to Modi, who today paid rich floral tributes to Ambedkar at his birth place.
Kejriwal spoke at an event at Talkatora Stadium to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the Dalit icon and was met with rapturous applause.
RSS calls for a review of the quota system while the Prime Minister says he is “in favour of reservation”, the Delhi Chief Minister said and wondered whom the BJP was “fooling”.
Projecting AAP as a party of the poor and Dalits, Kejriwal the Centre was planning to include “Savarkar” in school curriculum while the Delhi government plans to “teach” Ambedkar.
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