On the eve of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s 127th birth anniversary, people throughout India will organise various programs and arrange public talks. This is happening in every place where the people are becoming conscious of their human rights. His importance will continue to grow among not only his community, but also among the OBCs, minorities, and women for the extraordinary role that he played in liberating them. India will always remain obliged to Babasaheb Ambedkar for handing political power to them, and for launching the real democratic movement in India.

Present-Day India is not very different from India that Babasaheb Ambedkar left in the hands of his fellow countrymen. Rather in some areas, Indian society has deteriorated, if we for a moment assume that Indian society really existed at any point in time in the history of India.

Take, for example, the way the democracy and democratic institutions are undermined by the political party at the power with a meagre support from the public. The way it has done away with the fundamental rights of the SCs and STs. The right to represent in the higher echelons of the government is thrashed by the government by challenging the reservation in promotion. The SC/ST atrocity act which directly comes from the Article 17 of the constitution and hence the basic feature of Indian nation-state is undermined by two judges bench and made toothless.

The way the students have been denied their right to have access to education is an indication of the motives of the RSS/BJP.

While this is happening, there are many signs that the movement in the name of Babasaheb Ambedkar is growing and growing leaps and bounds. The recently successful demonstration of the SC/STs in the multiple states of India in sync with each other is an indication of the things to come for the Ambedkarite movement and its growing power. No political party and their leader can afford to criticise Babasaheb Ambedkar openly, but their trolls and their goons do it all the time.

The national media is not at all sympathetic to the cause of India’s 30 percent people, but the people’s media is making unimaginable things happen. Babasaheb Ambedkar and his thoughts are ever relevant, be it the economic problems of India, the political problems of India, and above all, the social problems in India cannot be solved without understanding Babasaheb Ambedkar. His thoughts are percolating in the society and it has been a slow process, but his personality has already entered in the lives of people and he adorn every house of the SCs and he stands as the liberation of hope for millions through his millions of statues.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale

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