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BSP `misusing'' Ambedkar''s name for political gains, says BJP PTI Indore, Aug 9 (PTI) BJP today criticised the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for "misusing" the name of B R Ambedkar for political gains and stressed it will present the nationalist face of the Dalit icon before the people."BSP has misused the name of Ambedkar to increase its vote bank and presented before them only one side of his multi -faceted personality. Ambedkar was a patriot and BJP will now highlight his nationalist face among the people," BJP's Anusuchit Jati (SC) Morcha President Dushyant Kumar Gautam told reporters here.Gautam dismissed suggestions that in order to spread its base among the Dalits, the saffron outfit is trying to encash the image of Ambedkar. BJP has always honoured the "champion of Dalits", he said.He said the Ambedkar memorial situated at Mhow near here was completed during the BJP's rule, while it was in dilapidated state during the Congress Government.Even the house in Delhi where the architect of Indian Constitution breathed his last was converted into a memorial during BJP-led NDA Government's regime, Gautam said.He also highlighted that Ambedkar was conferred `Bharat Ratna', after a long wait of 34 years after his demise, in the year 1990 when a non-Congress Government was in power at the Centre.
