New Delhi, April 14 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday reacted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks of Congress of using the Constitution as a weapon for its vote bank and cited a letter in which Dr BR Ambedkar blamed communist leader SA Dange and Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar for his defeat in the elections in 1952.

"They (BJP) say that we have insulted Babasaheb Ambedkar. Which party had made Babasaheb Ambedkar a member of the Constituent Assembly and Chairman of the Drafting Committee? Babasaheb, in his letter, had said that the plot to defeat him was hatched by Dange and Savarkar," Kharge said.

Congress party's president Mallikarjun Kharge, while addressing a press conference in the national capital, highlighte...