Former President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a true follower of B.R. Ambedkar and was striving to turn the latter’s vision of social reforms into a reality.
Mr. Kovind was speaking at a function to release the book Ambedkar and Modi: Reformer’s Ideas Performer’s Implementation, published by BlueKraft Digital, in New Delhi on the eve of Mr. Modi’s birthday.
The book has a foreword by music composer and Rajya Sabha member Ilaiyaraaja. In the 12 chapters, an attempt has been made to draw parallels between Ambedkar and Mr. Modi’s vision and efforts in the fields of infrastructure, education, socio-economic mobility and gender equality, a consonance that the BJP as a political party has been at work to establish as its support base among the Scheduled Castes has also grown.