Agartala, April 29 -- Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said that Dr BR Ambedkar, the key architect of the Indian Constitution and the country's first Law Minister, was a pioneer in building a socially equal India.

Saha said this while addressing a State Level Seminar on the 135th Birth Anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan.

"We have observed the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on April 14. When the first Union Cabinet was formed, he was the Law Minister. He worked against hatred, malice, and insult, and he was a different person. He worked for the oppressed people, and in 1990, he was conferred the Bharat Ratna. For many years, the then government didn't confer it on him intentionally. He was b...