Modi hails from ideology that never respects Dalits: Rahul

New Delhi, April 6
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi came from an "oppressive ideology" which could never respect Dalits and B.R. Ambedkar.

"Modiji, the oppressive ideology that you come from can never respect the Dalits and Babasaheb. Some examples of Baba Saheb's respect by BJP/RSS ideology," said Gandhi attaching some defaced and vandalised pictures of Ambedkar's statue.

He also attached Modi's tweet in which he said in Hindi: "The amount of respect our government has given to revered Babasaheb, no other government would have done so much."

Amid simmering Dalit anger across the country over a Supreme Court ruling, Modi had on Wednesday took a dig at the Congress for playing politics in B.R. Ambedkar's name.

Modi said his government gave Ambedkar, one of the main authors of India's Constitution, his rightful place and completed projects in his memory that were ignored by the previous government.

Rahul wishes Jaitley 'speedy recovery'

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday wished "speedy recovery" to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is suffering from a kidney-related ailment.

"I am truly sorry to hear this Arun Jaitleyji. I pray for your speedy recovery," Gandhi tweeted replying to a Jaitley tweet.

Jaitley had earlier tweeted: "I am being treated for kidney related problems and certain infections that I have contracted.

"I am therefore currently working from controlled environment at home. The future course of my treatment would be determined by the doctors treating me."

Jaitley is set to undergo a kidney transplant this weekend.

Due to his ill health, Jaitley had to cancel his next week's visit to London for the annual economic dialogue.

Jaitley, who underwent a gastric bypass weight loss surgery in 2015, reportedly visited the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday for a check-up where doctors advised him to take rest before his kidney transplant begins.