Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis alleged on Sunday that the Congress and NCP, when in power, did not provide land in Mumbai for a memorial of Dr B R Ambedkar. Speaking at the national convention of the BJP's Scheduled Caste Morcha in Nagpur, Fadnavis came down heavily on the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.

"These leaders made so many memorials for their forefathers but Congress leaders could not give land for the father of Indian Constitution [Ambedkar]," he said. "Because their eyes were set on the Indu Mill land and its FSI [floor space index, for commercial development], like they captured other [textile] mill lands in Mumbai," Fadnavis alleged.