Just as the government’s Swacch Bharat campaign reduces Gandhi to the single issue of cleanliness and hygiene, so does Modi's speech strip Ambedkar of complexities. One of the things Modi said of Ambedkar was: “How many atrocities and insults he faced in his life. If it was an ordinary individual he would have been bitter. But he showed greatness with no feeling of revenge. He attempted to connect everyone. The constitution is like nectar.” Modi’s florid rhetoric made Ambedkar come across as a do-gooder whose only aim was to spread love and happiness. That is akin to caricaturing a man who was a crusader for the rights of untouchables and an uncompromising critic of the practices of Hinduism. Sample what Ambedkar had to say of the religion in Annihilation of Caste, published in 1936: “What is this Hindu religion? Is it a set of principles or is it a code of rules? Now the Hindu religion, as contained in the Vedas and the Smritis, is nothing but a mass of sacrificial, social, political and sanitary rules and regulations, all mixed up. What is called religion by the Hindus is nothing but a multitude of commands and prohibitions.”