192 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
“Dr. AMBEDKAR’S ADVICE
Nothing could be more natural on the part of Doctor Ambedkar than to suggest that the organisers of the Temple Entry Satyagraha at Trichur should not take the help of the Congress in their campaign. For, otherwise, the task of misrepresenting the Congress would be rendered still more difficult. And then, secondly, one cannot be expected to surrender one’s “ raison d’etre ”. Doctor Ambedkar’s letter is nothing mope than a very intelligible struggle for existence.
Blessings to Nasik Satyagrahis From London
Bombay, November 2, 1931
The General Secretary, Nasik Temple Entry Satyagraha Committee, has received the following message from Dr. Ambedkar from London :—
“I regret very much not to have been able to write to you in reply to the letter you sent me some time ago containing the interview you had with the Commissioner. I have been so much taken up with the question of minorities which as you know has become much more difficult owing to the attitude of Mr. Gandhi that I have had no minute to spare :—
As anticipated by you I did get a letter from the Commissioner C. D. asking me to advise you people to stop the Nasik Satyagraha. I have not replied to him but I am going to do so by this mail. I am going to tell him that we cannot stop. So you may tell our people to go on. We must hot take our orders from the Government just as we must not take them from the Orthodox Hindus.
We have trusted Government long enough
We have trusted the Government long enough to remove “Untouchability”. But it has not lifted its finger to do anything in the matter and it has no right to ask us to stop. We must take the burden on our shoulders and do what we can to free ourselves from this course at any cost. If the Government does not help us, it must not at least hamper our just cause. It is no use telling us that we must not create ill-feeling between different classes and communities. This appeal by Government should be addressed to all the communities and not to us alone. It should specially be addressed to those communities who are in the wrong and who are sinning in the matter.