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Posted on Ambedkar Jayanti. Uses Babasaheb’s name. Gets his own history wrong.
Let’s correct the record. One point at a time. You’re not going to enjoy this. 👇
1️⃣ Nehru. Bharat Ratna 1955.
President Rajendra Prasad; a man who publicly opposed Nehru on the Hindu Code Bill, foreign policy & the President’s constitutional role; awarded it suo motu.
Not Nehru’s recommendation. Not Congress’s recommendation. The President’s own initiative.
Still upset? Ask why the man who disagreed with Nehru on everything still chose to honour him.
2️⃣ Indira. Bharat Ratna 1971. The year she liberated Bangladesh, split Pakistan in two, and was called “Durga” by Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself on the floor of Parliament. You may hate the politics. History recorded the achievement.
3️⃣ Rajiv. Bharat Ratna 1991. He was blown up by an LTTE suicide bomber on May 21, 1991. His award was posthumous. Dead men don’t nominate themselves. What you’re calling political nepotism was a nation mourning an assassinated ex-PM.
Three claims. Three failures. Let’s go further.
4️⃣ Congress chose Ambedkar as India’s first Law Minister.
Congress nominated him as Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee, the man who literally wrote the supreme law of this land.
When Partition redrew provincial boundaries and Ambedkar lost his seat in the Constituent Assembly, it was Congress that got him re-elected from Bombay Province so he could complete the Constitution.
Ambedkar championed the Hindu Code Bill; the most radical social reform legislation of its time, granting women property rights, divorce rights, and inheritance rights.
Nehru backed it. Ambedkar himself said: “Nehru is the most sincere among all Congressmen on this question.”
Who opposed it tooth and nail? The RSS.
🔴 Now the part you really didn’t want anyone to bring up.
The RSS Organiser, the Sangh’s own mouthpiece, ran an editorial in 1949 praising Manusmriti and attacking the Constitution for not including it.
Golwalkar, in Bunch of Thoughts; the RSS Bible, called the Indian Constitution “foreign” and said it had “nothing of Bharatiya culture in it.”
The RSS attacked Ambedkar’s own public pronouncements that the Constitution would give equality to all castes. Their editorial said this was “against the basic ethos” of their movement.
The RSS did not hoist the Tricolour at its own headquarters for 52 years after 1950, the very flag Ambedkar’s Constitution was written under.
Today, on Babasaheb’s 135th birth anniversary, a propagandist for that same ideological family is using Ambedkar’s name to attack Congress.
The organisation that called his Constitution “foreign.”
The organisation that opposed every social reform he fought for.
The organisation that didn’t respect the flag of the republic he built.
That’s not honouring Ambedkar. That’s looting his legacy on his own birthday. 🤫👎
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