Govt should acquire Indu Mill land for Ambedkar memorial: BJP
PTI | 09:12 PM,Dec 09,2011
Mumbai, Dec 9 (PTI) Three days after the activists of the Republican
Sena barged into the Indu Mill in Dadar, demanding land for Dr B R
Ambedkar's memorial, BJP workers today held a 'dharna' to put a
pressure on the government to acquire the mill land immediately.
Mumbai BJP chief Raj Purohit, who led the protest at Azad Maidan here,
said the mill land should be acquired as soon as possible for a grand
memorial of Dr Ambedkar. "It was former Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee, who first mooted the idea of a memorial of Ambedkar on the
Indu mill land," Purohit said. On December 6, the Republican Sena
activists, led by Anandraj Ambedkar, grandson of Dr Babasaheb
Ambedkar, entered the Indu Mill and installed busts of Babasaheb
Ambedkar and Gautam Buddha on the premises. RPI leader Ramdas Athawale
has also warned of a stir on the issue from December 15. The RPI and
various Dalit groups want that the land of the now defunct Indu Mill,
owned by the National Textile Corporation — a government of India
undertaking — be handed over for a museum and a large park in
Ambedkar's memory. Every year, lakhs of people turn up to pay their
respects to Ambedkar on December 6, which is the death anniversary of
the Dalit leader.
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