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COMPLAINT AGAINST ME IS ABSOLUTELY UNFOUNDED
“Denies Statement alleged to have been made before Commission.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has sent us a lengthy statement from which we take the following material points :—
My attention is drawn to the statement appearing in your issue of 6th instant in which the President of the Sholapur Municipality has given publicity to the resolution of the Municipality strongly repudiating the implied suggestion in my evidence to the statement that the grant to the Depressed Classes Hostel at Sholapur was stopped as a repercussion of Hindu-Moslem riot and explaining the facts that led to the stoppage, of the grant……..
The complaint against me seems to be based upon the supposition that, in the course of my evidence before the Simon Commission, I stated that the grant given to the Depressed Classes Hostel at Sholapur was deliberately discontinued by the Municipality because the Depressed Classes of Sholapur had refused to help the Higher Class Hindus during the Hindu-Moslem riots in 1925 which the Municipality holds is an untrue statement……….
My reply to the statement by the Municipality is that its complaint against me is absolutely unfounded and is based upon a deliberate misreading of my evidence……….
I am sure, every fair-minded man would agree that in my evidence I have never stated that the grant was stopped because the Depressed Classes refused to aid the Caste Hindus in the Hindu-Moslem riot. On the contrary I have clearly stated that I did not know what the cause was………
I wish the Municipality had stopped with vilifying me for the implication that, it thinks, arises from the statement made by me on the course of my evidence. It goes a step further and tries to give what it considers to be the true reasons for the stopping of the grant