Gandhinagar, April 14 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Thursday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for not voting in the Assam assembly elections.

 
 Though the voting in Dispur constituency of Assam, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur are registered voters, took place on April 11, Modi raked up the issue while speaking to mediapersons at a function here Thursday.
 
 "At a time when the country is celebrating the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, I feel saddened to learn that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not vote in the assembly elections in Assam," Modi said, talking to mediapersons at a seminar at the Pandit Deen Dayal Petroleum University here.
 
 "Babasaheb Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, ensured for every citizen the right to vote. To know that the prime minister did not vote in the assembly polls is very saddening for the people of the country," he said, adding "that this should happen on his birth anniversary is all the more painful”.