BJP to highlight Ambedkar 'insult' by RJD's Lalu Prasad
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New Delhi: The BJP is planning to intensify its campaign against RJD leader Lalu Prasad and party's social justice plank over the alleged insult of Dr BR Ambedkar by the RJD supremo. A purported video went viral on June 11, the birth day of Lalu Prasad, showing a poster of Dr BR Ambedkar placed at his feet. Over the past few days, the state BJP was raising the issue including Bihar deputy CM Samrat Choudhary holding a press conference in Patna.On Sunday the Bihar state SC commission issued a notice to Lalu asking him to clarify his position on this. Union minister Bhupender Yadav criticised Lalu Prasad for a complete silence on the issue. "The people of Bihar haven't forgotten the rule of Laluji. The atrocities on Dalits and backward communities were at peak during his regime. The visual in the video clearly shows his arrogance. I firmly believe he should apologise for this," Yadav told media persons in Delhi.Reacting to BJP's allegation, senior RJD leader Manoj Jha called it meaningless posturing by the BJP. "Their (BJP's) meaningless posturing vis-a-vis our national president in fact exposes their hollow politics which is nothing but the often-seen tension regarding symbolic reverence versus substantive commitment. While the BJP frequently invokes Dr. B.R. Ambedkar through statues, events, and imagery, we have been emphasising that it often neglects or contradicts the core values he stood for - social justice, equality, and constitutional morality," Jha told ET.
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