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he wanted to talk to you with an All-India perspective, and we made it clear that we can have no alliances, as per our policy. He, it seems, is not enamoured of his Scheduled Castes Federation. The executive is meeting in Delhi on 30th. He was very interested in the facts about Mr. Nehru (cinema outfit, state belongs to leader etc. from Mankind ) and said that adequate publicity be given to these facts. He was interested in taking out an English daily from Delhi.

He was very sympathetic, cordial and eager to understand our viewpoint in detail. He explained the democratic practice in England, at some length, of choosing a candidate, and it seems is a very great believer in democracy.

This is the gist. We could not report in person because we did not know where you were and we hadnomoney. Our trunk call to Hyderabad on 23-9-1956 to party office resulted in “no reply,” as nobody picked up the phone on that side

Dr. Ambedkar’s Address : 26, Alipore Road, New Delhi

Yours sincerely,

Vimal Mehrotra,

D.V. Goswamy.

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DR. AMBEDKAR’S LETTER

ALL INDIA SCHEDULED CASTES FEDERATION

26, Alipur Road, Civil Lines, Delhi. 24th September 1956.

Dear Dr. Lohia,

Your two friends had come to see me and I had quite a long talk with them although we did not enter into any discussion about your election programme.