Chennai, Dec. 6 -- On a day where the nation pays tribute to Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on his death anniversary, the opposition parties are sending a message to the ruling front by targeting them in their tributes to Ambedkar.

On Saturday, Lok Sabha DMK MP Kanmozhi claimed that the DMK and its allies would continue to protect the nation from clutches of communal forces.

"By shattering the caste structure that divides our people by birth, and by giving us the great charter of this nation, the Constitution, which made us embrace the principle that all are equal, stands the revolutionary Dr. Ambedkar. We will stand against and fight casteism, which perpetuates inequality, the very thing he opposed and battled throughout his life. We will ...