Amidst criticism for omitting the contribution of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in government-sponsored media advertisement on Sunday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai referred to Nehru in separate Independence Day related functions even as he took a veiled dig at the former Prime Minister and the Congress.
“The first Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Lal Bahadur Shastri have contributed in their own way. The Prime Ministers’ Museum in Delhi has on display all the contributions made by the Prime Ministers of the country. There is no question of forgetting anyone. It is not just Prime Ministers, even other noble personalities too have contributed. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar who has written the Constitution should get the credit for the functioning of democracy in all these 75 years. There has been a growing tendency of downplaying the contribution made by Ambedkar,” the Chief Minister said at the Manekshaw Parade Ground on Monday morning.
He, however, reserved his larger response for criticism at Amrutha Bharathige Karunaada Jathre programme later in the afternoon.
