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DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
law substituting joint electorates for separate electorates. The only thing that can hold them together is love. Outside the family justice alone in my opinion can open the possibility of love, and it should be the duty of the Anti-Untouchability League to see that the touchable does, or failing that is made to do, justice to the Untouchable. Nothing else in my opinion can justify the project or the existence of the League.
With best wishes and kind regards.
I am, Yours sincerely, (Sd.) B. R. A MBEDKAR .
F .S.
I am releasing this to the Press so that the general public may know my views and have an opportunity to consider them.
To
A. V. T HAKKAR, E SQ ., General Secretary, Anti-Untouchability League, Birla House, New Delhi.
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To my great surprise, I found that no attention was paid to my proposals. Indeed, my letter was not even acknowledged! I felt that there was no use in my remaining in the Sangh. I dissociated myself from it. I found that in my absence the aims and objects had undergone a complete change. At the meeting Held in Cowasjee Jehangir Hall in Bombay on the 30th September
1932 the aims of the organization were stated to be:—
“Carrying propaganda against Untouchability and taking immediate steps ‘to secure as early as practicable that all public wells, dharamshalas, roads, schools, crematoriums, burning ghats and all public temples be declared open to the Depressed Classes, provided that no compulsion or force shall be used and that only peaceful persuasion shall be adopted towards this end.’”
But in the statement issued by Mr. G. D. Birla and Mr. A. V. Thakkar on the 3rd November two months after its inauguration it was stated :—
“The League believes that reasonable persons among the Sanatanists are not much against the removal of Untouch