Tributes paid to the architect of Indian Constitution by President, Vice president, prime minister and leaders of various parties on his death anniversary

Today is the 133 Rd death anniversary of the architect of Indian Constitution who later on embraced Buddhist with his wife and lakhs of followers. President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Babasaheb Dr B.R. Ambedkar on his Mahaparinirvan Diwas at Parliament House Lawns, New Delhi. The Vice President of India Jagdeep Shankar also paid floral tributes to Babasaheb Dr. BR Ambedkar on his Mahaparinirvan Diwas at Parliament House today. The prime minister Narendra Modi was also present on this occasion and paid floral tributes at the statue of Dr. Ambedkar at the Parliament House. While paying his respectful tributes prime minister Narendra Modi wrote on X : Pujya Baba Saheb, along with being the architect of the Indian Constitution, was an immortal champion of social harmony, who dedicated his life for the welfare of the exploited and the deprived. My respectful obeisances to him today on his Mahaparinirvana day. The senior Congress leader, national communication chief of Congress party and former union environment minister Jairam Ramesh wrote on social media, play form X, while paying his, respectful tributes : Today is the 67th death anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.  He had converted to Buddhism along with his wife and lakhs of his followers in Nagpur on October 14, 1956. A month later he was in Kathmandu for a meeting of the World Fellowship of Buddhists where he gave a talk on Buddha and Marx. Thereafter, he went to Lumbini and embraced the historic Ashoka pillar at Buddha’s birthplace.  After Lumbini, Dr. Ambedkar and his wife visited Bodh Gaya the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment, Sarnath where the Buddha first preached his teachings and Kushinagar where the Buddha had passed away.  Returning to New Delhi on November 30, 1956, Dr. Ambedkar visited an exhibition of Buddhist statues and two days later participated in a welcome ceremony for the visiting Dalai Lama at Ashoka Vihara. He attended the Rajya Sabha for the very last time on the morning of December 4, 1956. The next day he met with a delegation of Jain munis and had a conversation on Buddhism and Jainism. He finalised the preface to his book, ‘The Buddha and his Dhamma’ and brought his two other books  (i) Revolution and Counter-Revolution and (ii) The Buddha and Karl Marx to near completion. His wife wrote in her memoirs that after dinner on December 5, 1956, he had started singing Kabir’s couplet Chalo Kabir Tera Bhavasagar Dera (Move on Kabir, this is your temporary abode) with a lot of passion and musicality. She was to find him dead the very next morning. The Prime Minister paid him a tribute later that day in the Lok Sabha.