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To: JPR who wrote (11947)	4/15/2002 9:04:05 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

The Manu of modern-day India speaks like it is Ambedkar was against partition: BJP leader (JPR note: The word "man" comes from the sanskrit word "manas" meaning "to think or mind": man is a thinking being.) By Our Staff Reporter Bangalore April 14. D.S.Veeraiah, President of the SC/ST Morcha of the State unit of the BJP, said on Sunday that B.R.Ambedkar was against the division of the country on communal lines, and had advised Muslims to go to Pakistan after partition. Muslims, Dr. Ambedkar had said, "with their minds and hearts in Pakistan would find it difficult to stay here," he added. Presiding over a function organised to mark the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar at the party office here, he said Dr. Ambedkar had the courage to say this and was against the two-nation theory. Dr. Ambedkar had accused the Congress of being "anti-dalit", and Pandit Nehru had fielded Congress candidates against him twice in the elections to ensure that he did not enter Parliament. Mr. Veeraiah said the BJP did not field a candidate when the Congress nominated K.R.Narayanan to the post of President. While the Congress refused to send Jagjivan Ram to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the BJP supported him. It was the BJP which supported reservation in promotions for SCs and STs, and amended the Constitution thrice in the past two years, he added. Inaugurating the function, K.Narahari, MLC, said Dr. Ambedkar gave importance to "dharma" than politics, and was opposed to doing politics at the cost of "dharma". He opposed religious conversion and did not want dalits to go out of the mainstream. It was because of this, he embraced Buddhism. He was of the firm view that if converted into Christianity or Islam, dalits would be out of the mainstream. Dr. Ambedkar, he said, was against Communism, and had cautioned dalits not to be attracted towards an alien ideology. Dr. Ambedkar was against appeasing minorities and used to accuse the Congress of not interested in the development of dalits. He quit the Nehru Cabinet opposing its "anti-dalit" policy, he added. S.Suresh Kumar, MLA, Sarvothama Pai, B.N.Vijaya Kumar, General Secretary of the Bangalore unit of the party, and H.K.Das, General Secretary of the SC/ST Morcha of the State unit of the BJP, were present. Danappa Kattimani, Secretary of the morcha, proposed a vote of thanks.