WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES - 3 - Chapter 2 Summary "A SHABBY SHOW" Part-2 "Congress Abandons Its Plan" by DR. BR Ambedkar

Rupees one crore and thirty lakhs were contributed by the public to the fund. The fund was collected to carry out Congress propaganda and to finance the constructive programme of the Congress as drafted by the Working Committee at Bardoli.

There was not only no principle, there was shameful favouritism in the distribution of the fund. Out of the total of 49 1/2 lakhs which was distributed in the three years Gujrath— Mr. Gandhi's province—got 26 1/4 lakhs while the rest of India got 28 lakhs. This means that a population numbering 29 1/2 lakhs got 26 1/4 lakhs while the rest of India numbering about 23 crores got 23 lakhs !

It is unnecessary to pursue the story of the organised and systematic loot by Congressmen of the balance of 1 crore and 80 lakhs which was spent in subsequent years. It is enough to say that never was there such an organised loot of public money.

And what was to be the dimension of this separate Untouchable Fund ? The All-India Congress Committee fixed it at five lakhs. The Working Committee felt it was too big an amount for so unimportant and so unprofitable a work as the amelioration of the Untouchables and reduced its total to Rs. two lakhs. Two lakhs for sixty millions Untouchables!!

To sum up, the Congress could find only Rs. 48,881 out of Rs. 49 1/2 lakhs which it spent for carrying out the Constructive otherwise known as the Bardoli Programme in which the uplift of the Untouchables was given so much prominence. Can there be a grosser instance of insincerity than this ? Where is the love for the Untouchables which the Congress professed for the Untouchables ? Where is the desire of the Congress to undertake the uplift of the Untouchables ? Would it be wrong to say that the Bardoli resolution was a fraud in so far as it related to the Untouchables ?