View: Even Ambedkar might have faced jail under new UP law

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On 14 October, 1956 at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar left the Hindu fold and converted to Buddhism, along with roughly 3,65,000 others. As the leader of the most oppressed caste group, Ambedkar asked his followers: “Why should you worship the God that rejects you, that does not want your shadow?” This conversion emerged from … Read more