Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Saturday congratulated Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for declaring that dalit icon B R Ambedkar's old house in a Mumbai chawl will be converted into a national memorial.
Thackeray had made the announcement commemorating the death anniversary of Ambedkar on December 6.
Ambedkar had lived in the house in a BIT chawl in Parel for 22 years, from 1912 to 1934.
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