Dear Editor,
India has seen many reformers fighting for the rights of humanity. Dr BR Ambedkar was one of the ace social reformers of India. The quintessence of his doctrine was social democracy. Though he was the pioneer of Dalits, he never encouraged reservations and insisted for equality, liberty and fraternity. All political parties have been using the names of reformers to appease people, but none of them tried to implement what these great men wanted to do. If Ambedkar would have been alive, he might have supported Narendra Modi’s Land Bill. He wanted annihilation of caste and not its perpetuation. Ambedkar was against reservations but forced to agree it for a period of 10 years. Those “10 years” are still continuing and if we talk of removing reservations, people would create a furore. The poison has been strongly put into the system and no government can think of doffing it. This is not the kind of India he along with other social reformers had framed and fabricated.
Shifa Sikri,
Ferozpur