Warnings…?

 

"On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of this political democracy so laboriously built up by this Assembly."

Theses are the excerpts from the speech to the Constituent Assembly on November 25, 1949, for the full transcript of this speech check out – ‘Why BR Ambedkar’s three warnings in his last speech to the Constituent Assembly resonate even today’

The concerns he has expressed are more relevant today than ever…

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Previously published on Be[a]Cause on 26 Jan 2022.

Ingenuity...!

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Re[as]sume...!

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