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Babu Jagjivan Ram remembered on birth anniversary

Minister for Social Welfare Pinipe Viswaroop has said that the YSRCP government is working in line with the ideology of Babu Jagjivan Ram and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Efforts are being made to introduce biographies of the leaders in the textbooks in the State, he said.

Mr. Viswaroop, along with Ministers A. Suresh and Velampalli Srinivas, paid tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram on the latter’s 114 th birth anniversary organised by the Andhra Pradesh government at Thummalapalli Kalakshetram in Vijayawada on Tuesday.

He said that the YSRCP government was implementing several schemes for the welfare of SCs, STs, BCs and Minorities. “Babu Jagjivan Ram had fought against injustice meted out the downtrodden section of the society as a Parliamentarian for 50 years, he said.

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