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BR Ambedkar, the Congress critic who saw Gandhi and Patel as opposed to Dalits
B.R. Ambedkar didn’t approve of Mahatma Gandhi’s patronising attitude towards the Dalits or Sardar Patel’s opposition to the idea of reservation.
New Delhi: For as long as he was alive, B.R. Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution, was a bitter critic of the Congress and its leaders, especially Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, both of whom he felt were responsible for the bad deal that the Dalits were getting in the country.
Ambedkar’s constant complaints about the treatment meted out the weaker classes by the (mainly) upper caste leadership of the Congress were also a result of his own sufferings.
On his 62nd death anniversary, ThePrint takes a look at the strained relationship Ambedkar shared with two other stalwarts of modern Indian politics.
Birth and education
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14 April, 1891, in a military family — his father, grandfather and uncles were all senior officers (Subedar Majors, the highest rank in the Indians could reach) in the British Army. But growing up, Ambedkar was often a victim of vicious abuse for being an untouchable even though he was a brilliant student.
This didn’t deter him from becoming the first-ever untouchable to win a full scholarship to study abroad — Columbia University, New York.
On his return, even though he was appointed Military Secretary to the Maharaja of Baroda, who saw a spark in the young man, Ambedkar had to leave his job just because no hotel or lodge would offer him a place to stay. He went abroad again, this time to join the London School of Economics, where he got his second doctorate. On his second return, he realised that despite his high education, he still remained an untouchable.
And this led to the birth of his avatar as a politician.