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January 15, 2001

Why Dr. Ambedkar died for these ungratefuls?

 

You remember! Ah what is that man's name?  That SC Leader!  Because of whom the SC&ST Dalits have had education and could come up in life.  Arrey, there are his Statues nearly in every Colony and Street Corner almost allover the Country!  Yes!  Yes!  Dr BR Ambedkar!  That is the one, I was trying to remember!  That is the Man to whom the Dalits pay lots of false gratitude, offer hollow prayers and make meaningless obeisance in public!  And the Country also today grudgingly gives some credit for all his works, contributions, struggles and achievements.  Everyone knows that none of them really mean what all they do or say in public!  None has time for him or for his teachings and writings.  But, it is fashionable, or has become fashionable to praise him in public.  And it is publicly, politically and socially the right thing to pay respects to him, once in a while, particularly on the 14th of April and 6th of December every year.

 

It may be true that it is because of this Dr Ambedkar, 99.9% of SC&ST Dalits can get admissions into Engineering, Medicine, Technology and other Professional Courses, and to all those new Commercial Courses like Management and Foreign Trade.  The same is also true to all other Education and Learning in Universities and Specialized Institutions of Higher Learning!  It is because of him all these SC&ST Dalit Boys and Girls enter the Portals of Higher Education at par with other bright young Scholars, and also manage to get many Free ships, Fee-Concessions and waivers, Scholarships and Fellowships specifically meant for them, even though they perform very poorly than those others who don't get such financial benefits and grants!

 

This Dr Ambedkar is singularly and personally responsible for all those Third Class SCs&STs in Govt Services, Assemblies, Parliament, Govt and Political Parties.  He had made all these SC&ST Dalits come out of their Villages, Hamlets and Slums to the Metropolitan Cities, State Capitals and other main Towns.  He had brought them, atleast in ther present large numbers to the Schools, Colleges, Universities, Govt Offices and PSUs.  And these Dalits almost dutifully go and garland his Statues when necessary, and organize functions invariably for their own private and personal benefits, and get closer to Political Leaders and get favors or build up their clout with Senior Officials who matter.

 

Yes, that Ambedkar!  That Ambedkar whom this VP Singh and RV Paswan almost immortalized by starting prematurely a Birth Centenary Celebrations in 1990, and almost unduly and unnecessarily forced it through more than three long years to the middle of 1993, till it was forcibly brought to an end thankfully by the then Congress President and PM, PV Narasaimha Rao.  All the other fellows had also set up a Foundation in his name.  Yes, I am referring to Dr Ambedkar Foundation, under the then central Ministry of Welfare.  It was also given a premium place in New Delhi, right in the heart of the Capital of India.  It was good, that Shiela Kaul central Housing Minister and Narasimha Rao did not provide Govt Accommodations for those joining the Foundation, unlike the Central Wakf Council and its Secretary who was given an identified Official Accommodation at the heart of the City on the other side of India Gate, in Kaka Nagar, New Delhi - 3.

 

Where is that Foundation?  Was not that Dr Ambedkar Foundation, located just near the Parliament Street Post Office, in an independent and big Govt Bungalow?  Yes, it was located at 25 Ashoka Road, right in front of the Communications Ministry in Ashoka Road, on the other side of the Road!  That was only a stone throw away from the Parliament Street Circle at Parliament Street and Ashoka Road Crossing.  Now nothing is there!  It is empty!  Except for the big black Bust of Dr Ambedkar in front of the main gate right near the portico, which that fellow N Manohara Prasad, the first Director of the Foundation flushed out of the rubbish of the Centenary Cell in the dungeons and installed it there, not a crow could be found!  Only that is there, lonely and forlorn, for someone to break it down!

 

What happened to this Dr Ambedkar Foundation?  Where had the present Director, staff and other officials fled leaving that poor bust of Dr Ambedkar, whom the SC&ST otherwise say they worship?  Don't they all make a big public show during the Functions and on 14th April and 6th December every year?  Where they have all gone?  Where their Leaders have all vanished?  Is not that RVP sitting right in front of this place in Sanchar Bhavan?  Don't his Chamchas and Chelas come in groves and big croud daily whenever he is in Delhi?  Or is it that all these worshipping, garlanding and big bold rabble-rousing speeches are only for public show to hoodwink the otherwise poor SCs&STs who don't have time for anything other than slaving to earn some money to keep their hunger at bay from taking their lives and that of their children and other family members?

 

That Dr Ambedkar Foundation, established by the Govt with much fanfare in 1992, had vanished from its Office at 25 Ashoka Road!  That is the truth!  They have been pushed out of the place.  And that very cleverly!  Very ingeniously!  That too very silently!  With almost none knowing about it, or raising any voice against it!  That is the truth!  Real truth!  Naked truth!  Well, well what happened to all those old retired bandicoots who claimed themselves to be the descendants, torchbearers and conscience keepers of the SCs and STs?  Were they not using the Foundation as their Meeting Point, and gossip club?  What happened to all those self-proclaimed Dalit Intellectuals and Professors of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi etc who poisoned the main popular National Programmes and killed the Foundation, out of their desire to personally dominate and make use of the Programmes and Funds of the Foundation for their personal benefits, private advantage, individual growth and family progress?

 

The Dr Ambedkar Foundation, yes was pushed out very silently and ingeniously without anyone knowing it, or raising a voice against it, or protesting it, or objecting it or resisting it!  We are now told that the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had asked for the building and site where Dr Ambedkar Foundation was established!  They want to build a Railway Station.  Of all the places, they could only find Dr Ambedkar Foundation in this area as an easy and convenient place to site a Railway Station, and none of the stupid Dalits had protested!  None of, what is his name, with that longish name - ah, Bharat Rathna, Bodhi Satva Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar's beneficiaries had protested!  None of the educated Dalits protested!  None of the Acedmicians protested!  None of the Intellectuals protested!  None of the Conscience Keepers protested!  None of the SC&ST Govt Servants protested!  None of the Dalit Workers protested!  None of the SC&ST Dalit activists protested!  None of the Dalit Leaders protested!  None of the Dalit Party Workers protested!  None of the different politicians protested!  None of the Corporators protested!  None of the MLAs protested!  None of the MPs protested!  None of the Ministers protested!  None of the VIPs protested!  None of the VVIPs past and present protested!  None is protesting!  And none will protest in the near future also!  Not even that great RVP!  And RVP is now just sitting there - right opposite on the other side of the road, in that tall building of Sanchar Bhavan, that houses the prestigious Communications Ministry, and is the Head Quarters of all the Communications in this blessed or cursed Country!  Ask him, if anyone has the guts time or interest or is bothered atleast now on reading this, he will plead ignorance!  Ask his Private Secretary, and anyone of the more than normal quota of Additional Secretaries and other staff of his, they will be sure totally ignorant!  For they are all otherwise busy - you know what!  One need not mention about them!  They are all great People, busy people, honorable people, respectable people and useful people!

 

Come 6th December!  Oh!  That is not very far!  It will be here in just a couple of months!  Hundreds will then, very much park their cars here - just on the pedestrian footpath at the very main gate of 25 Ashoka Road!  They may be just laughing, and yet flock the near-by Parliament House to garland Baba Saheb Dr BR Ambedkar Statue there, pay floral tributes, worship him and pay obeisance, oblivious of the sadness of the occasion, and the sad end of Dr Ambedkar Foundation!  All will be ignorant, see the other side and pretend to be unaware that Dr Ambedkar Foundation was there at 25 Ashoka Road, had been edged out, elbowed off from the 25 Ashoka Road, where it was founded!  And that Baba Saheb's Bust there at 25 Ashoka Road had been neglected, forgotten and abandoned, to be broken away or dismantled or torn apart by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation!  What a sad end to Dr Ambedkar and its Foundation?  Is it the second death of Dr Ambedkar, and one of many a deaths of Dr Ambedkar Foundation?  Only time will tell!

 

Some one said, that the Foundation had died long back, when its first Director left it on 3rd June 1996, to go to the Railway Board as PS/MR to join Mr RVP as his Private Secretary.  Since then, the Foundation had really become a haunted place of old retired people, toothless people, characterless people, gutless people, insincere people, and those with one leg already in their graves still wanting to scavenge something for their personal benefits and that of their family members from Dr Ambedkar, his name and Foundation - including that most mischievious Gandha Das who had strangulated the Foundation of all its life, right from its inception, just in the name of teaching and disciplining its unsinkable first Director!  Yes, the Foundation has come to the right end, for which Mr Gandha Das and his bossom friend JN Prasad had all along worked illegally and illicitely so hard, and schemed, manipulated and masterminded many a strategies to fail the first Director of Dr Ambedkar Foundation, fail the Programmes and fail the Foundation, fail the Dalits, fail the People, fail the Govt, fail the Country and fail Dr Ambedkar.  Let them have the last laugh and rest in comfortable peace for what all they had done and achieved!

 

If the above are the truths, and if the SC&ST Dalits, the direct beneficiaries of all the struggles, life long fight and achievements are so insincere and ungrateful, was Baba Saheb Dr Ambedkar foolish, or all these SC&ST Dalits of this Country are a bunch of Fools, gutless Cowards and really Ungrateful People?  Was the Great Baba Saheb wrong in fighting for the Liberation, Freedom, Education and Development of such inhuman filthy people?  Baba Saheb seem to have felt so, and had rightly a premonition!  Remember his last speech at Nagpur, when he painfully with an almost broken rued that his educated people, for whom he had worked had let him down!  No!  No!  Definitely not!  Baba Saheb was not wrong!  What he said was also a truth, but a timely warning.  Baba Saheb had exposed all these half-educated fools, cowards and cunning selfish frauds!  Baba Saheb's People will never let him down, or his dreams, his hopes and his faith in them to build an honest hardworking equal and truthful Society!  Here we don't find any Really Educated People!  There are only Educated Fools, both amongst the SC&ST Dalits and in the Rest of the Society!  And they are still at each others throats.  No!  They are cowards, they can never fight openly even to exploit, rob or swindle.   They are crouching to jump at each others tails.  And they know not what they are doing and what harm they are causing to the People, Society, Country and the Future of this Nation!

 

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