So what did Modi say? “Many people mocked Baba Saheb Ambedkar, tried to pull him back, and made every possible effort to ensure that the son of an impoverished and backward family would not progress in life, be something, and succeed in life. But the picture of New India is altogether different. It is an India which is Ambedkar’s India, of the poor and the backward,” he told the countrymen. Is this really the case?