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Straight answers - The Times of India
Posted By Ashok V Chowgule (ashokvc@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in)
5 May 1997
Title : Straight answers
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Publication : The Times of India
Date : May 5, 1997
Durga Bhagwat Gandhian and writer on her controversial statement that Babasaheb
Ambedkar shouldn't be perceived as the real architect of the Indian constitution
Why do you say Ambedkar is not the architect of our constitution? Isn't it an
irresponsible statement to make?
I do not make any statements till I verify that it is the truth. Rajendra Prasad,
even before becoming the first president of free India, had written that Babasaheb
Ambedkar was not the brain behind the framing of the constitution. It was B N Rao,
an ICS officer, who had done the initial spadework. But Ambedkar did go through it
painstakingly and later approved it by virtue of being the then union law
minister.
Can you prove what you said about Ambedkar is the truth?
What I am saying is that as the law minister he was responsible for framing the
constitution. But he is not its architect in the true sense of the term as is
popularly perceived, I am soon going to write articles with proof to make the
point.
You have also said that Ambedkar was not the first champion of Dalits?
Yes, It was Ramanujacharya who championed the cause of Dalits way back in the 11th
century. Ambedkar came much later. What Ambedkar and also Jinnah have given us is
the legacy of reservations, which is detrimental to the country. You take away an
individual's urge to compete when you give everything to him on a platter
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