Maha CM pays tributes to Babasaheb Ambedkar on his birth anniv

Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan today paid tributes to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on the occasion of his 122nd birth anniversary.

Chavan, who presided over a function to unveil a life size statue of Dr Ambedkar with Union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh at the airport here, later paid tributes at Deekshabhoomi, where the dalit leader had embraced Buddhism in 1956.

A large number of organisations also paid tributes to Dr Ambedkar at Deekshabhoomi and at Samvidhan Chowk on busy Nagpur-Jabalpur road today.