Modi invokes Ambedkar; Amit Shah says won't scrap reservations: 10 updates

Not to be left out of the political war of words, the Congress said the government's duplicity over SC's refusal to stay its ruling on the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act had been exposed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today claimed no regime had honoured B R Ambedkar like his government had and took a dig at the Congress for always doing politics in the name of the Dalit icon but ignoring his contributions. The Prime Minister was seeking to reach out to the Dalit community days after the nation-wide Bharat Bandh protests, which saw 10 people lose their lives, over the supposed dilution of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, by the Supreme Court. Modi was not alone in BJP's outreach to Dalits with party president Amit Shah