Congress provincial ministries excluded all seventy-eight Untouchable legislators from cabinet posts
Evidence
More crucially, according to Ambedkar, the Congress provincial ministries across the country decided not to offer any cabinet posts to a single one of the seventy-eight Untouchable legislators. At the Round Table Conferences, Ambedkar had “pressed the claim of the Untouchables for the recognition of their right to representation in the Cabinet with the same emphasis” as he had done for “the recognition of their right to representation in the Legislature”. When Narayan Bhaskar Khare, the Prime Minister of the Congress ministry in the Central Provinces, formed a Cabinet with R.G. Agnibhoj, an Untouchable, as one of his ministers, the Congress Working Committee met in Wardha and passed a resolution on 26 July 1938 condemning Khare. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1323
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- Congress ministries refused cabinet posts to all their Dalit legislators after 1937 (similarity 0.92)
- The Congress refused Dalits any cabinet posts despite winning nearly all reserved seats (similarity 0.91)
- Congress fielded Untouchables as mock election candidates to embarrass boycott-breakers (similarity 0.81)
- Ambedkar argued separate electorates were needed to produce genuine Untouchable representatives. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Reserved seats in general constituencies left Untouchable leadership under privileged-caste control.
#corroborates(0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 393 - Congress ran Untouchable mock candidates from 1920 to 1943.
#corroborates(0.60) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 381