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............ I SHALL TAKE STERN MEASURES
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar addressing a rally of 50,000 people under the auspices of the Belgaum district branch of the federation, at Nipani, on December 25th, 1952 said,
“The misery, starvation, and squalor of the backward classes would bring dreadful results, and recalled the French and Russian revolutions.
He warned the ruling party that if the lot of the backward classes was not improved by the next elections, the Scheduled Castes Federation would take stern measures, which might upset the Government, and anarchy might follow.
“I shall wait for two more years, or even till the next elections, for the alleviation of the misery of my people-, and if a new deal is not forthcomming through negotiations, I shall take stern measures,” he added.
He refuted Mr. Nehru’s statement at Nagpur recently that there was no Untouchability in India.
Elections Losses
The election reversals of” the Scheduled Castes federation. candidates were not due to any weakness in the organisation, but due to lack of companions.
He would abandon politics if anybody could prove that the organisation was faulty. Its candidates secured hundred per cent votes from the Scheduled Castes people.
Earlier, Mr. P N. Rajbhoj, General Secretary of the federation, who presided over the meeting, announced that the Working Committee of the federation would meet in Delhi in February............PTI. [1]
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- : Keer, P. 440.
1 : The National Standard, dated 27th December, 1952.