Jagjiwan Ram Vs Dr. B R Ambedkar ji by Dr.SL Dhani

nikhil_sablania Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:48 pm

"In my welcome speech, I recalled singular role of Dr. Ambedkar in emancipation of Dalits, in a meeting of my Association, attended by Babu Jagjiwan Ram as chief guest on 14 April, 1970, at Mavalankar Bhawan. In his anger he devoted his entire speech to my criticism for "unduly" praising Dr. Ambedkar and forgetting his (Babuji's) role in that behalf. Babuji condemned educated Dalit youth as being misguided." - 2 Nov. 2010

"Jagjiwan Bhavan had come up as an impressive complex even when Babuji was a central minister of good standing and Ambedkar Bhavan nearby has remained a neglected and unimpressive structure, even after 14 years of Dr. Ambedkar's parinirvaan. It remained like that simply because Babuji had been considering Dr. Ambedkar, his rival, had never wanted to do just anything to help perpetrate the memory of Dr. Ambedkar." - 2 Nov. 2010

"I had heard Babu Jagjiwan Ram in 1971, when he had while speaking in Jagjiwan Bhavan had derided the role of Dr. Ambedkar in Constitution-making, by referring to the latter as being only a good Munshi or clerk. The audience had felt so much disgusted at the said derogatory remarks of his against Dr. Ambedkar that it raised the slogans of “Shame, Shame”, and quite a few of them had thrown shoes at Babuji." - 2 Nov.2010

Comments on Jagjiwan Ram (father of lok sabha speaker Mira Kumar) by DR. S L Dhani (Dr. Sukh Lal Dhani)

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About Dr. S L Dhani

Scholar-Administrator, Researcher, Reviewer, Thinker, Indologists, Critic, Manvantaracharya

IAS (Retd)

M A PhD MDPA LL B

Advoctae Delhi High Court

Formerly, Commissioner and Secretary To Government Haryana.

Dr. Dhani took voluntary retirement from the post of Commissioner and Secretary to Haryana Government while fighting for values and against institutionalised corruption in Government, at the age of 56;

He has been a tough and upright administrator (having unimpeachable sense of integrity), a distinguished scholar. an author of pioneering books in Hindi and English on Hindu religion and philosophy.

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"Dhani Became Legend in His Own Life Time" - U K Bhanot (Veteran Journalist)

Presently, Editor, The Consumer Censor

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Dr. Dhani has become a legend in his own life time, especially in the matter of establishing a very rare synthesis between the ancient and the modern, the orient and the occident, and between Hindu religion and the modern science, by propounding Manvantara Theory of Evolution of Universe, based upon the Vedas and the Puranas, in 1975, which gave him international recognition overnight. The 26th day of June 1975, which is regarded in India as doom’s day on account of promulgation of National Emergency by the then Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, happened to bring an international fame to Dr. Dhani. Presentation of his theory on that day left the newspapers space almost blank on account of cessation of all political activity in the country, which relished gulping of the story about Manvantara Theory, released by N S Malik of UNI from Chandigarh, which made screeching headlines in national dailies on 28 June 1975.

Since then, he became a welcome invitee at the international seminars on theosophy and science, and finally to the electronic media. Including BBC, which featured Dhani for its Overseas Programme, while being in England, in 1979? Even Shankar’a Weekly, carried two-page feature by Sis Mannzi.

Voluntary Plunge Into The Administrative Oblivion

Dr. Dhani’s voluntary plunge into the administrative oblivion, by sacrificing his post of Commissioner and Secretary to Government of Haryana, at the altar of public values, is still in the memory of those who had been proud witnesses of the scene in closing months of 1988 and the early months of 1989.

I have intimately known so many colleagues of that time, who frankly confess that the courage of Dr. Dhani in the matter of challenging the top political bosses, who do not care for a reputation for sticking to any kind of honourable existence, is simply unthinkable and no bureaucrat in his senses would dare tread the path that Dhani did, even at the ripe age of late fifties, when bureaucratic and political annoyance could and did bring a very serious disaster not only for him but also for his entire family.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the Haryana political leadership of the relevant times irrespective of its party affiliation had wished the ruling politicians to give such a deterrent treatment to Dhani, that no officer should even dream in future, to challenge the orders and wishes of his administrative and political bosses.

Whether it was in response to such wishes or not might be question for research, but what is indicated by this autobiography is that he had to leave his hearth and home within six months of his retirement, in order to serve his own ailing mother, who had been refused entry into his own house, by his own family members, that he had to defend himself in Criminal Writ Petition of Habeas Corpus, on the basis of allegation of kidnapping his own wife and son and lodging them in his own house. The said Writ was filed by one of his two daughters, which had been prosecuted as a lawyer by his second daughter and the other son had allegedly financed the whole show.

Dr. S L Dhani (Dr. Sukh Lal Dhani)
http://sldhani.com/