Efforts on to buy house where Ambedkar once lived

10 Jan, 2015 11:51 IST|Sakshi
Efforts on to buy house where Ambedkar once lived

The BJP on Saturday asked the government to acquire the 2,050 sq ft, three-storey house in London where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar once lived.  Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar said he has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley seeking Prime Minister's intervention to acquire the house. This is an emotional issue for Ambedkar's followers and to the people of Maharashtra, Shelar said.  The house has market price of Rs 40 crore. After the initial flurry of activity last year, the Indian authorities seem to have lost interest in the property. Former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had also made a request to the Union government to buy the property.  "Towards the end of my term, we had asked the Centre to buy this mansion. Its an international transaction and could have only been carried out by the Union Government. I do not know what happened later," said Chavan.  

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