366 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
“We have no faith in the Hindus, who have treated us in a most vile and humiliating manner for the last 2,000 years, and now that we have been in a position to organise ourselves. We shall leave no stone unturned to get what has been long over due said Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Labour Member, Government of India, addressing a largely attended meeting of the Scheduled Castes at Nare Park this evening.
Swaraj and National Government, he declared, meant only Hindu Raj, which they could no longer brook. Therefore, they demanded distribution of rights before the British quit India.” [l]
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1 : Free Press Journal dated 18th February 1946.