Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Hindu Right Wing and Indian National Congress https://www.newsclick.in/baba-saheb-ambedkar-hindu-right-wing-and-indian-national-congress Ram Puniyani | 25 Dec 2024
Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Hindu Right Wing and Indian National Congress | NewsClick ‘Samajik Samrasta Divas’ (Social Harmony Day or SSD). is totally contrary to what Babasaheb had dreamt of. He had talked of annihilation of caste. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS-BJP by beginning SSD is actually putting forward an agenda that negates Ambedkar’s dream and vision of a casteless society. SSD stands for perpetuation of the caste system with harmony between different castes...At deeper philosophical level, BJP also upholds Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s ‘Integral Humanism’, which states that Hindu society is created from the primeval man, Brahmins from mouth, Kshtriyas from arms, Vaishyas from thighs and Shudras from feet. This division gives stability to the society according to their ideology!..
The real cause of Ambedkar’s resignation was the failure of Hindu Code Bill (HCB) to get passed in its original form in Parliament. It was Jawaharlal Nehru who had requested Ambedkar to draft the HCB. While drafting it, Ambedkar kept women’s equality at the forefront. The background of this Bill was that different religious communities had different codes guiding their personal laws. Personal laws are applicable in case of marriage, divorce, inheritance and custody of children.
As the HCB was made public, there was a hue and cry against it. RSS and its cohorts propagated that it is an attempt to finish Sanatan Dharma. Huge protests were organised and Ambedkar and Nehru's effigies were burnt by RSS followers on December 12, 1949.