American Ambedkarite trashes Amit Shah, speech goes viral
Protest in Dallas, Texas, against Home Minister Amit Shah’s flippant, derogatory remarks against Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in Parliament, whilst celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India.
About a 100 protestors, under the aegis of the Texas Coalition Group, gathered at the Frisco City Council in Dallas, Texas, to express their rising concern against the ruling BJP party in India and its parent organization the RSS, to denigrate the lifelong work of Dr Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The recent provocation was Home Minister Amit Shah’s flippant, derogatory remarks against Dr Ambedkar in Parliament, on December 19, 2024, when the government was celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Indian Constitution, of which Dr. Ambedkar is the principal architect. This is the first international protest in the US, after raging protests in India, spreading over 500 districts in India, lasting more than two weeks.
The protests were preceded by a tribute to former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh, who is largely credited with India’s liberalization policies which helped set the stage for India to be a global player economically.
Members of the Texas Coalition Group, formed in 2018, with a multi faith representation, and members/volunteers from various political parties in India, have been relentlessly taking up issues exposing the rise of Hindutva, not just in India but the US as well. Hindutva, a separatist ideology practised by Hindu fanatics, has been on a rise since BJP leader Narendra Modi, a lifelong member of the RSS, became the prime minister of India in May 2014.
The RSS which has been nurturing Hindu fanaticism since its inception in 1925, along with its political wing the BJP, is a complete anti-thesis of Dr. Ambedkar’s inclusive social and political beliefs, rooted in democracy. RSS and its sister organization the Hindu Mahasabha, have been spewing venom against Dr. Ambedkar for decades, ever since he was chosen to draft the Indian constitution in 1949, the progressive and secular contents of which were an antithesis of everything that RSS professed.
To RSS, a ‘shudra (untouchable)’, belonging to the lowest rung of the caste system drafting the Hindu Code Bill, considered progressive with reforms in the Hindu personal law, was ‘sacrilege’. For the RSS “Manusmriti’, a reactionary brahminical text, is its guiding principle, which, among other things, says that the killing of a cow is a capital crime without pardon, the killing of a Shudra was not. This is also the guiding principle of the present day Indian government led by Modi.
