No.-2. Ambedkar formed the
Independent Labour Party (ILP) in August 1936, which participated in the
provincial elections of Bombay and won 13 seats out of 15 seats reserved for
scheduled castes.
No.-3. Ambedkar was opposed
to the strike by civil servants. For him, a strike is nothing more than a
breach of contract of service. It is only a civil wrong not a crime.
No.-4. In July 1942, Ambedkar
was appointed a member of the Executive Council of Viceroy as a Labour member.
He resigned from this post in May 1946.
No.-5. The Independent Labour
Party was transformed by Ambedkar as the All India Scheduled Castes Federation
in 1942. It was a political party that participated in the general elections of
1946 but was completely defeated.
No.-6. In January 1920 Ambedkar started a weekly paper called ‘Mooknayak’ (Leader of the Dumb) to champion the cause of the depressed classes in India. Some of his famous books include—The Untouchable: Who are They and Why They Have Become Untouchables; Buddha and His Dhamma; ‘The Rise and Fall of Hindu Women’, ‘Emancipation of Untouchables’, ‘The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India’; ‘Pakistan or Partition of India’, ‘Thoughts on Linguistic States’, etc.
No.-7.Ambedkar was appointed
as the first Law Minister of Independent India, but he resigned from the
Cabinet in September 1951 due to differences with Nehru on the Hindu Code Bill.
No.-8. Ambedkar was elected
to the Constituent Assembly from Bengal but he lost his seat after the
partition. However, he was chosen by the Bombay Congress Legislative Party in
place of M.R. Jaykar who resigned earlier. It should be noted that he was
defeated earlier in the election of the Constituent Assembly in Bombay. It is
interesting to note that in his interview with Cabinet's mission on April 5,
1946, Ambedkar opposed the idea of the Constituent Assembly as he feared it
would be dominated by High Caste Hindus.
No.-9. Ambedkar was elected
as the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly. He is
called the father of the Indian Constitution. However, K.V. Rao was of the
opinion that Ambedkar was not the father but mother of the Indian Constitution
as the vital decisions about the Constitution were taken by Nehru and Patel and
Ambedkar followed the same.
No.-10. Ambedkar was defeated
in the election to the Lok Sabha in 1952 mainly due to his advocacy of
partition of Kashmir. However, he was elected as a member of Rajya Sabha from
Maharashtra in March 1952. In May 1954, he again contested in the by-election
to Lok Sabha but was defeated again. He realised that a party that has no base
in rural areas has no future.
No.-12. Ambedkar converted to
Buddhism on October 14, 1956. He died on December 6, 1956 at Delhi due to
severe diabetic neurosis.
No.-13. After his death, his
political party the Scheduled Caste Federation was renamed as the Republican
Party of India in 1957 by his followers.
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