New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a ride in a Delhi Metro train to reach the venue of an event in North Delhi’s Alipur area on Friday.
Mr Modi boarded the train at the Lok Kalyan Marg Metro station on his way to participate in an event organised on the eve of dalit icon Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. Some commuters were seen taking pictures with the Prime Minister inside a coach in which he was travelling.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi today travelled by Delhi Metro from Lok Kalyan Marg station to Vidhan Sabha station of Line-2 (Yellow Line) from 5:41 pm to 6:01 pm,” a senior DMRC official said.
During his travel, services were running normal on Line-2 as per the normal schedule, he said. 26, Alipur Road is the place where Ambedkar lived in his last days and died in 1956.
The Ambedkar Memorial at Alipur Road is built at the place where the dalit icon had breathed his last on December 6, 1956. Mr Modi had laid the foundation stone of the memorial on March 21, 2016.
The memorial has been given the shape of a book. The museum at the memorial intends to create a detailed experience of Dr Ambedkar’s life and his contribution to India through extensive use of static media, dynamic media, audio-visual content, and multimedia technologies.
A meditation hall has also been created. Toran dwars, a Bodhi Tree, a musical fountain, and facade lighting are other important elements of the memorial, a statement said.
Hitting out at the political parties for politicising the legacy of BR Ambedkar, PM Modi had, earlier this month, said that no regime had honoured the Dalit icon like his government had.
The PM’s remarks had come close on the heels of widespread violent protests over a Supreme Court verdict putting in place “safeguards” to forbid the misuse of a law preventing atrocities against the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.
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