Parliamentarians pay tribute to Ambedkar on his birth anniversary

Parliamentarian, including ministers, paid tribute to B.R. Ambedkar on his 124th birth anniversary here on Tuesday.

The tributes were paid in the Central Hall of parliament house.

"Leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Lok Sabha deputy speaker M. Thambi Durai, deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha P. J. Kurien and former deputy prime minister and chairperson of the Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha L. K. Advani led parliamentarians in paying floral tributes at the portrait of B.R. Ambedkar in the Central Hall," a release issued here said.

Other parliamentarians, including Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley and Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan also paid tributes the main architect of the Indian constitution.

Among the other dignitaries who attended the function were several union ministers and members and former members of parliament, the communique added.

The secretaries general of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Anoop Mishra and Shumsher K. Sheriff respectively, and senior officers of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats also paid floral tributes to the great leader.

On April 12, 1980, a portrait of Ambedkar was unveiled in the Central Hall of parliament by the then prime minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh.