LUCKNOW, April 15 -- Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the ruling BJP, alleging that a party under whose rule the most statues of BR Ambedkar were vandalised is now trying to send a "false message" by releasing funds for their beautification under the 'Dr Ambedkar Moorti Vikas Yojana'. "The most statues of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar have been vandalised during the BJP government's 10-year rule, and today, the same people responsible for the vandalism are trying to send a false message before the elections by providing budgetary support. But the people of UP are wise and cautious. Even today, discrimination against Dalits, backward classes and especially against the PDA continues," Yadav said speaking to the media after garlanding the Ambedkar statue in Hazratganj, Lucknow, on the occasion of Baba Saheb's 135th birth anniversary. Later, a function was held at the SP's state headquarters in Lucknow, where Yadav paid his respects by garlanding a portrait of Ambedkar in the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia auditorium. The SP chief also drew a parallel between the assassination of former American President Abraham Lincoln and the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar. He said that April 14, 1865, marked Lincoln's assassination after he abolished slavery, while April 14, 1891, marked Ambedkar's birth. Quoting Lincoln's alleged last words - "After me, surely someone will come who will secure the right to live with dignity for the exploited, the deprived and the downtrodden" - Yadav declared that nature performed a miracle by bringing Baba Saheb Ambedkar into the world on the very same day to complete the unfinished mission of liberation....