Ambedkar Jayanti
Channel: tribaldarshan
Date: 2022-04-14

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, known with the honorific title, ‘Babasaheb’ (Respected Father), was born on 14 April 1891, in the erstwhile military cantonment, now Ambedkar Nagar, Madhya Pradesh in central India.
Though born in a low caste Mahar family, he proved to be one of India’s most respected leaders. He championed the cause of Dalit rights and human rights. As the head of the drafting committee he made sure that these rights became a fundamental part of the Indian Constitution. 
Ambedkar was one of India’s highly educated persons in spite of the caste oppression and socio-economic discrimination he and the Dalits suffered. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay and received doctorates from Columbia, and Osmania Universities and the London School of Economics 
He was one of India’s ardent freedom fighters and was the first Law Minister of free India in the first Cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. As champion of social liberation he said, ‘So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.’ 
As a supreme example of his movement for social liberation and freedom from the tangled shackles of caste oppression in Hindu society, he converted to Buddhism with, as per reports, 3, 65,000 followers. In this context he proclaimed: ‘I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.