India, April 13 -- Everybody claims to love Babasaheb. Across the country and across ideologies, political parties are competing to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14. In Uttar Pradesh (UP), where assembly elections are due next year, political parties are holding public events to remember Ambedkar on his 135th birth anniversary. Recently, UP's BJP government proposed a Rs.403-crore Dr BR Ambedkar Murti Vikas Yojana to beautify, develop, and maintain Ambedkar statues in all 403 assembly constituencies in the state, while the Samajwadi Party set up a Ambedkar Vahini as part of its Pichhda Dalit Alpsankhyak (backward-scheduled caste-minority) outreach. The Ambedkarite parties in the country are falling behind in optics in celebrating th...