New Delhi, May 22 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not accepting a proposal to install a portrait of Mata Savitribai Phule in the Delhi Legislative Assembly premises. The proposal was put forward during a meeting of the General Purposes Committee of the Assembly held earlier today.

According to AAP MLAs from Seemapuri and Seelampur, the suggestion to honour Savitribai Phule - a pioneer of women's education and a symbol of social reform - was dismissed by BJP members, who neither supported nor approved the proposal.

AAP MLA Kuldeep Kumar accused the BJP of deliberately ignoring icons of social justice and alleged that this reflects the party's long-standing tendency to disregard th...