Hyderabad, April 13 -- Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has paid rich tributes to Bharat Ratna and Constitution maker Dr B R Ambedkar on his 130th birth anniversary on April 14.

The Chief Minister said that the efforts put in by Dr Ambedkar to make the country secular (with no caste bias), democratic republic are highly laudable. The CM recalled on this occasion the great services rendered by Dr Ambedkar. He said that it was due to Dr Ambedkar's foresight that the formation of Telangana state happened Constitutionally. He said that the state government is implementing several schemes and programmes for the welfare and development of the oppressed classes taking inspiration from Dr Ambedkar. For this, the state government is spending th...