Patna, Aug. 3 -- Congress slammed its senior leader Ashok Ram for levelling baseless charges of dalit leaders not being given due respect in the party, after he joined JD(U) today.

Senior Congress leader and former party MLC Prem Chand Mishra told media persons here that Ram had levelled baseless charges of dalit leaders not being given due respect in the party.

His charges were baseless and misleading, he added.

"It is most disturbing that Ram who was given so much respect in Congress, is now making baseless charges that dalit leaders are being sidelined in the party ", Mishra said adding that such statement was given by Ram after he joined JD(U) on Sunday. Ram, a dalit leader, was Minister in Bihar when Congress was in power in the sta...