Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, (14 April 1891-6 December,1956) the great architect of our Indian Constitution. Jurist, economist, social reformer, political stalwart, first Law Minister in independent India, and defender of the Dalits and the downtrodden, Ambedkar was no ordinary person.
He was a man with a vision for a secular India. He had seen how communal passion was escalating in nascent independent India. He helped frame a secular Constitution that would give equal respect and space for all religions, individuals and communities.
He advocated the right to equality and inserted it in the Constitution as one it’s fundamental principles.
We owe this man our love and respect for what he was and for what he did.
But, unfortunately, nationalist anarchists and communal pundits are digging a grave for burying deep down the Indian Constitution. They have pulled down his statue; they are trying to replace the Constitution with Manusmriti and mythical notions of class and caste society, communal passion, elimination of minorities, and denial of minority rights.
Those who killed Gandhi and keep on shooting at his effigy are at work similarly against Ambedkar and his human rights principles.
Should such sinister forces succeed?