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Ambedkar memorial: Dalit activists attempt to storm legislature
Thursday March 15, 2012 08:38:20 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Protesting
the delay by the centre in handing over land for constructing a
memorial to B.R. Ambedkar, the Republican Party of India Thursday
staged a noisy demonstration outside the Maharashtra legislature.
Entering the high-security zone and taking the security by
surprise, around 60 RPI supporters shouted slogans and attempted
to barge into the legislature building at Nariman Point.
However, the police managed to stop them and the protestors were
whisked away from the venue, while around a dozen were detained.
Earlier this week, RPI chief Ramdas Athawale, an ally of the
opposition Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party, had warned that
unless the centre immediately cleared the proposal, his party
would take a protest march to Mantralaya.
The centre has given an in principle approval to a proposal for
handing over 12.5 acres of the Indu Mills at Shivaji Park in Dadar
to construct an ultra-modern memorial for Ambedkar, the architect
of the Indian Constitution.
The mill land belongs to the National Textile Corporation Ltd and
it must first be transferred to the state government.
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