Hyderabad, April 4 :Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao recalled the services rendered by former Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the weaker sections who fought for the casteless society Dr Babu Jagjivan Ram on his 114 Birth Anniversary on April 5.

In a message, the Chief Minister paid rich tributes to Dr. Jagjivan Ram who fought for the country’s independence and worked for social equality.

Born in 1908, Babu Jagjivan Ram was popularly known as Babuji. He was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar and was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables, in 1935 and was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1937, after which he organised the rural labor movement. (UNI)