Dalits threaten to block traffic over Ambedkar memorial issue

Dalits from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have threatened to block the Delhi-Nagpur rail-road traffic to protest against the Centre not according the Rajghat-like status to Dr B R Ambedkar National Memorial in the national capital. "Delhi based Dr Ambedkar Memorial is wearing a deserted look because of centre's neglect over the last eight years and dalits are upset over this issue," Dr Ambedkar Parinirvan Bhumi Samman Karyamaram Samiti President Indresh Gajbhiye told reporters here. He said that though several dalit organisations have been demanding that Ambedkar Memorial should be given Rajghat- type status, the centre has not done anything about it. Gajbhiye said that different organisations would meet at Nagpur on April 24 to decide on blocking of train movement between Delhi and Nagpur. He said that the architect of Indian constitution breathed his last at a house situated on 26 Alipur Road in Delhi on December 6,1956 and Ambedkar Memorial has come up there which was dedicated to the nation in 2003.

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