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| Dalits, weaker sections getting step-motherly treatment in Ramnagar: Pathania. | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Ramnagar, Dec 6: - A colourful programme was organized here-today by Ramnagar unit of Youth Congress with a view to commemorating Baba Saheb Ambedkar on his 55th death anniversary.
While throwing light on his life-profile and various facets of his life-style, senior Pradesh Youth Congress leader, R S Pathania said that he was a distinguished jurist, towering leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and the founding fathers of independent India.
Born into a poor Maharfamily, he spent his whole life fighting against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna – the categorization of Hindu society into four varnas – and the Hindu caste system.
Pathania also said that dalits and weaker sections are being given a step-motherly treatment in Ramnagar.
Exploiting the occasion and opportunity, he gave a clarion call to dalits and weaker sections from Ramnagar to rise and rebel against the indifferent treatment being meted out to them.
While narrating life-profile of Baba Saheb, Mr. Pathania apprised the gathering that overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles, he became one of the first so-called outcastes to obtain a college education in India.
Eventually earning law degrees and multiple doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, he gained a reputation as a scholar and practiced law for a few years, later campaigning by publishing journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India's so called untouchables.
He is regarded as a Bodhisattva by some Indian Buddhists, though he never claimed himself to be a Bodhisattva.
He was born in the British-founded town and military cantonment of Mhow in the Central Provinces (now in Madhya Pradesh). He was the 14th and last child of Ramji Maloji Sakpal and Bhimabai.
Only three sons – Balaram, Anandrao and Bhimrao – and two daughters – Manjula and Tulasa – of the Ambedkars would go on to survive them. Of his brothers and sisters, he was the only one succeeded in passing his examinations and graduating to a higher school.
On account of his untiring services as a crusader against ‘caste-system’ he was posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1990.
Other who paid homage to the great son of the soil included Prem Nath, Tilak Raj, Jagmohan, Bhushan Modi, Channu Ram, Govind Ram, Kaku Ram, Talib, Shic Charan, Bimlo Devi, Sandla Devi, Virender Singh, Baldev Singh, Shano Devi, Banti Devi, Nanti Devi, and hundreds of Congress workers drawn from various far-flung pockets of Ramnagar.
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