Mumbai (Maharashtra), Sept. 19 -- : Anandraj Ambedkar, president of the Republican Sena and grandson of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, on Saturday said that he was invited at the last moment to the Ambedkar statue brick laying ceremony, which was cancelled yesterday.

"The brick laying ceremony of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar statue at Indu Mill was cancelled yesterday. I was unaware of this function. No one from the government or from the authorities contacted me about this and all of a sudden an ordinary officer came to my residence Rajgruh and gave me an invitation," Anandraj Ambedkar told ANI here.

The event at Indu Mill premises in Mumbai for the Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial was postponed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) at t...