Ambedkar's nation-first ideology is the need of the hour: Governor

       Dr. Ambedkar had put nation before everything else and his 'nation first' ideology is the need of the hour said the Hon'ble Governor of Kerala, Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar. He was presiding over a lecture 'Re-reading Dr. Ambedkar' by Justice Devan Ramachandran, Hon'ble Judge of Kerala High Court at Lok Bhavan today.

       The Governor remembered Dr. Ambedkar as the principal architect of our constitution who had risen above the circumstances of his birth and made valuable contributions to the nation as a whole. Dr. Ambedkar was a man of resolve and convictions, said the Governor. The Governor remarked that Dr. Ambedkar's contributions were above all partisan and sectarian interests and his greatness should not be confined into the frames of a particular caste or region as he worked for the whole of the nation.

        In his address Justice Devan Ramachandran said that Dr. Ambedkar had placed emphasis on education and he used knowledge as a powerful tool to fight the menace of caste based discrimination and the structural flaws that perpetrate such discrimination in the society. 'Knowledge dismantles denial of dignity' was the precept that made Dr. Ambedkar championed the cause of socio-economic equality to precede political equality in a free state. Justice Devan Ramachandran opined that the intellectual acumen of Dr. Ambedkar is not properly understood and that many of his prophecies were later proved right

          Lok Bhavan has organized this lecture as part of the 135th Ambedkar Jayanti celebrations for an invited audience in Lok Bhavan.