Cong hits back at PM over neglect of Ambedkar remark

Congress today hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that B R Ambedkar was not given a fair deal by it in the last 60 years, saying he was either not "properly briefed" or was being "economical with truth".
"Prime Minister unfortunately is either not properly briefed or he is completely economical with the truth," party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters.
Seeking to turn the tables on Modi, Tewari asked whether it was not a fact that the RSS opposed the Constitution of India.
"The RSS in 1950 actually opposed the Constitution of India. Is it not a fact that former Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister of the BJP (AB) Vajpayee, actually set up a Committee to review the Constitution when there was no demand from anybody except RSS that the Constitution be reviewed," he said.

Tewari wondered as to why the Prime Minister was silent about the unfortunate suicide of Dalit Hyderabad scholar Rohith Vemula.
"Why were the entire instrumentalities of the State deployed in order to even question the caste of Rohith Vemula?" he asked.

Noting that the Prime Minister had talked about not revisiting reservation, he asked Modi as to who raised the issue of revisiting reservation?
"Was it the Congress or was it the RSS?" he said, in an apparent dig at the Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat who had spoken about the contentious issue in the midst of Bihar polls.
Besides, he charged the Prime Minister with having an anti-Dalit mindset, claiming that it reflected in a book of his speeches.

"And the last but not the least, what the Prime Minister had to say in a 'Book of Speeches' titled 'Karma Yog', which was compiled and released some years ago, exposes his anti-dalit mindset," he said.