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Ambedkar’s London house: India to ink deal today

MUMBAI:The ‘exchange of contract’ between the Maharashtra government and the owner of the three-storey bungalow in London, where BR Ambedkar had lived as a student in the 1920s, will take place tomorrow, Minister of State for Social Justice Dilip Kamble said here today.



Mumbai, August 27 

The ‘exchange of contract’ between the Maharashtra government and the owner of the three-storey bungalow in London, where BR Ambedkar had lived as a student in the 1920s, will take place tomorrow, Minister of State for Social Justice Dilip Kamble said here today. “The Indian High Commission in London will exchange contracts with the owner of the house by tomorrow afternoon.

Once that is completed, the state government will pay money within the next two days after which the house will be ours,” Kamble said. Earlier, a Marathi TV news channel had claimed that it is in talks with a UK firm for buying the London house even as the Maharashtra government is in advanced stages of purchasing the property for turning it into a memorial.

Kamble said that the government had already paid a token amount of Rs 3.1 crore to the owner. The rest was ready to be paid as and when required. The state government, in January, announced the decision to acquire the 2,050 sq feet bungalow for Rs 31 crore and to preserve it as a memorial of Ambedkar, the iconic Dalit leader who headed the Constitution drafting committee. — PTI 

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