302 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
drafted. “ The stand we take,” he said, “is that the constitution must be tripartite. It must be a constitution which will be controlled and worked by free, independent and important elements in the national life in the country. We do not propose to allow Hindus and Muslims to work up an agreement for political advancement, leaving the Scheduled Castes in the cold. Therefore, we propose to have one single organisation, such as the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation, functioning all over India and acting as a single live piece to this particular political aspiration of the Depressed Classes”.
Emphasising the importance of technical training, Dr. Ambedkar said that no nation could progress without “tool men”. Besides, technical training had a vast future in the industrial development of the country.” [1]
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1 : The Times of India, dated 10th May 1943.