Chennai, April 8 -- BJP leader CR Kesavan on Wednesday criticised the Congress party, saying that it has repeatedly disrespected the party's National President Mallikarjun Kharge and turned him into a "powerful, rubber-stamp" Congress president.

"Right from Nehru to Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party has been a repeat offender when it comes to disrespecting the dignity of our Dalit community. Though he is the Congress president, the decision lies with the high command, meaning the Congress first family. This is how the Congress party has demeaned and degraded Kharge as a mere, powerless, rubber-stamp Congress president," Kesavan said.

He further underlined that the Congress's first family-led government denied Dr Ambedkar the Bharat Ratna...