Mhow (MP): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday hailed Babasaheb Ambedkar on his birth anniversary and said the chief architect of the Constitution never accepted Article 370 that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Babasaheb Ambedkar’s remarkable efforts removed the anomalies of 1000 years of slavery and on the basis of these India has become the largest democracy in the world, Yadav said at an event in Mhow, the birthplace of the legendary social reformer.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given people of J-K their rights back by scrapping Article 370, Yadav added.
“Babasaheb Ambedkar never accepted Article 370. His contributions are multi-faceted. He realized future challenges for India. Babasaheb Ambedkar learned from his own struggle and helped others. He left no stone unturned in his own education, which inspires us because there should never be lack of education in anyone’s life,” Yadav said.
The kind of work he did to uplift society had never been seen before and reservations provided by the Constitution have helped every section of society, including Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the MP CM pointed out.
The literacy rate among Scheduled Castes, which was once only 1.5 per cent, has reached 59 per cent today, he said.
“PM Modi recognised all the places associated with Dr Ambedkar as Panchtirtha. The contribution of former MP CMs late Sundarlal Patwa and Shivraj Singh Chauhan has been important in developing Bhim Janmabhoomi in Mhow as a pilgrimage. The MP government will give 3.5 acres of land for the construction of a dharamshala at Bhim Janmasthal Mhow, which will help devotees,” he said.
“The Dr Ambedkar Kamdhenu Yojana will make the farmers of the state prosperous. If a person from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes opens a dairy, then he will be given a 30 per cent subsidy by the government,” he said.