Vice President, PM pay floral tributes to Ambedkar

Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan in a group photograph with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, MoS Ramdas Athawale, Congress President and Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge, BJP MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and others during the tribute paying ceremony to Dr BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, observed as ‘Ambedkar Jayanti’, at Prerna Sthal, Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi.
NEW DELHI, Apr 14:  Vice President C P Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday led parliamentarians and people in paying floral tributes to B R Ambedkar in Parliament complex on his 135th birth anniversary.
Every year, hundreds of people line up to pay tributes to one of the key architects of the Indian Constitution at his statue in Parliament complex.
Vice President Radhakrishnan, who is also the Rajya Sabha Chair, PM Modi, Speaker Birla, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge offered flowers at the portrait and statue of Ambedkar.
Kharge, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, and Modi were seen having a brief but an animated discussion at the venue.
Earlier, the prime minister, the speaker and Parliamentary Affairs minister Kiren Rijiju were seen having a long discussion as they awaited the arrival of Radhakrishnan.
A jurist, Ambedkar was also the first Union Law minister of independent India. (PTI)