360 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Dr. Ambedkar, referring to the “sufferings of the Scheduled Castes” in India, compared them with the condition of Negroes in U. S. A. who, he said, “are as much tyrannised by the White Americans as Scheduled Castes are by Caste-Hindus.”
Discussing the problem of framing the future Constitution of India, Dr. Ambedkar said that he had an ingenious method of preventing the formation of an executive of a majority community belonging to one party disregarding completely the interests and susceptibilities of a minority community belonging to another party. He refused to disclose the details of his scheme, but said that under the present Constitution, the major community belonging to one party took possession of the administration in a Province, “thus imposing the worst form of tyranny on a minority community.” The helplessness of the minority community, when the major community makes a monopoly of the executive of the Government in the Province should be prevented by a statutory provision in any future Constitution of India,” he said. He added that he stood for coalition Governments formed by representatives of both major and minor communities in different Provinces and also at the Centre.
Dr. Ambedkar reiterated his view that India under the present circumstances should be satisfied with Dominion Status. “My approach to the question of Indian Independence is purely from the stand point of defence of the country and I firmly believe that India is not well equipped at present to defend herself alone without the help of Britain,” he declared. “ If the Constituent Assembly adopts my method, India could have the help of the British Army stationed in India without British control over that army, he concluded.” [1]
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1 : Jai Bheem, dated 26th January 1947.