Ambedkar deliberately distanced himself from the Mandal to retain full freedom of expression

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I also told you that the responsibility for the views expressed in the address was entirely mine, and if they were not liked by the conference I would not mind at all if the conference passed a resolution condemning them. So anxious was I to relieve your Mandal from having to assume responsibility for my views—and also with the object of not getting myself entangled by too intimate an association with your conference—I suggested to you that I desired to have my address treated as a sort of an inaugural address and not as a presidential address, and that the Mandal should find someone else to preside over the conference and deal with the resolutions. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 789

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Category: Factual Claims

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