No one else has rejected Ambedkar as much as the current politics has done.

The social and political changes of our times have increased the relevance of Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. Here in recent years, the consciousness of reading and understanding Dr. Ambedkar has developed. Now no one can ignore them.

Be it BJP, Congress or Marxist parties – without Dr. Ambedkar, they cannot cross the electoral ladder. But will Dr. Ambedkar be remembered only for winning elections? Will he be able to gather votes by making him an election hero?

Dr. Ambedkar’s Presence as an Idea
It is said that in the groups which have weak ground, creativity is also highest in them. Many leaders in twentieth century India recognized it differently.

Dr. Ambedkar recognized it for the untouchables and vulnerable groups, women, that unless they are uplifted, India will fail as a country and a community. He believed that if one thing has converted the Indian society into a decadent society and transformed it into a dead community instead of a living community, then the name of that thing is: the caste system. In the context of the universal destructive role of caste, Dr. Ambedkar writes that ‘there is no doubt that caste is fundamentally the soul of Hindus’.

Now the point of view is that Dr. Ambedkar is being revived in the last three decades. Now whoever wants to appear progressive, he will have to take his name. It is interesting that the one leader who recognized the genius of Dr. Ambedkar during the freedom struggle was Mahatma Gandhi. It is to be noted that in those days the one leader on whom Ambedkar had attacked strongly was also Mahatma Gandhi.

Ambedkar was ashamed that the Congress did not do anything for the Dalits. Gandhi was most responsible for this, because before his last days, he was not ready to oppose the caste system and caste system, but was content to be a Sanatani Hindu. But Gandhiji, whom Ambedkar called Mr. Gandhi like Jinnah, never responded to Ambedkar’s attacks; Rather, he said that seeing what our forefathers had done to Dalits, we should not feel bad even if Dalits spit on our faces.

As an atonement, Gandhiji gave the Dalit question a full year’s time. To eradicate the stigma of untouchability, he toured across the country, heard abuses from place to place, bombs were thrown at his car at many places and challenged the pundits to debate. Gandhiji was a man who ran away from unnecessary head-footballs. He only said that if anyone proves that there is support for untouchability in the Vedas or Shastras, then I will consider that part as projected.

Difference between Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar
Other Congress leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Abul Kalam etc. did not like Dr. Ambedkar at all. Nehru had expressed his displeasure many times that while the freedom struggle is intensifying, Gandhiji is touring across the country for the Dalits.

Clearly, Nehru had no broad sense of the importance of the Dalit question. It was made mandatory for the membership of the Congress party only at the behest of Gandhiji that no one would consider anyone as an untouchable. In fact, the main difference between Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar was that Dr. Ambedkar wanted to solve the question of untouchability and caste system first, and then to fight for freedom, and Gandhi wanted to take the questions of freedom and untouchability together. were walking.

How much respect Gandhiji had for Ambedkar’s talent and ability, it can be estimated from the fact that only with Gandhiji’s efforts Ambedkar could reach the Constituent Assembly and on his suggestion became the Law Minister in the Nehru cabinet. The purpose of remembering all this is not to show how much Gandhi ji was in favor of Ambedkar or that Dalits should accept Gandhi ji’s loan. Its purpose is only to prove that what was outstanding in our freedom struggle was being represented by both Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar.

Dr. Ambedkar had hope from Gandhi, not from Congress and Gandhi knew that Ambedkar was a special person. Nehru does not come anywhere in this scenario, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia must have made a serious effort to merge Ambedkar’s Republican Party with Lohia’s Samajwadi Party. Before the conversation could take any shape, Dr. Ambedkar’s Mahaparinirvana took place.

In this way, in independent India, Ambedkar and Lohia were the two leaders who recognized the importance of caste in Indian society and fought for a casteless society. It is also no less important that this was the time when no vote bank was formed in the name of Dr. Ambedkar.

Regarding Ambedkar, Gandhi had said – “In future, whatever adjective he may be associated with, but Dr. Ambedkar is not a person who can be forgotten by the society.” This statement of Gandhi proved to be completely correct. Any person who knows the inner layers of India’s problems will not be able to deny that the path to the creation of any future beautiful India will pass through Ambedkar.

Dr. Ambedkar was a complete thinker, social revolutionary as well as a politician. Liberals are supporters of democracy as a political system, supporters of state-controlled capitalism as an economic system, or supporters of state socialism. They support the complete nationalization of agricultural land and the nationalization of basic and large industries. Atheists advocate Buddhism as an egalitarian religion, but their main concern and central concern is caste.

In the context of caste, he said that what has made Indian society and most of the Indian man, especially the Hindus, insensitive, devoid of just consciousness and dehumanizing, is the Indian social system based on caste. It makes us irrational, irrational, cowardly, hypocritical and self-respecting every day and erodes the self-respect and human dignity of the individual. A vendor sells portraits of BR Ambedkar on a pavement in New Delhi. (Photo: Reuters)
Photo: Reuters

Today bullets are being fired in the name of caste. People are being killed on the basis of religion. In such a situation, there is a need that Dr. Ambedkar should be read, his life should be remembered. He is the builder of society, builder of the country and a great humanitarian of the world. Calling him the leader of the caste, the leader of any one society would be unfair to his works. On the birth anniversary of other great men, people of all castes and communities of the country are involved. it should happen, But the birth anniversary of Babasaheb, the creator of modern India, is celebrated only by Dalits, Backward Classes, Minorities and Government Departments (as a ritual payment). It should be changed.

Ambedkar’s appearance as physical body
Ambedkar has made his presence felt from Delhi to remote villages both physically and in form of thought. It is being given importance but the question of land reforms, universalization of education, public health, life with self-respect has been pushed back.

Today any dead person is adopting Gandhism or dead Ambedkarism, but only those who want to walk on the struggles can adopt their living form. Today there is a competition among political parties to respect Ambedkar and adopt his physical physique. Everyone has their own claim that no other party has respected Dr Ambedkar as much as we have. The reality is that no one else has rejected Dr Ambedkar as much as the current political mind has. Dr. Ambedkar’s respect is in the matter of who has adopted Ambedkar.

It is said that when a fruit is ripe, everyone rushes to pluck it. This is the reason why Ambedkar has become as much a favorite in politics today, but Ambedkar, however attractive he may be in appearance, is equally difficult to adopt. Today’s political parties know this, that is why they go to the physical Ambedkar. In this way, she takes his name on 14 April and 6 December but is afraid of his ideological brilliance.

Dr. Ambedkar’s respect is not in who has installed such a big statue of him, but in who has adopted his ideal. The number of people taking the name of Dr. Ambedkar increases, but the customers of freedom, equality and fraternity, which he had described as his life philosophy, are decreasing.