Ambedkar’s ideas of social justice still haunt country’s constitutional apparatus. How much have we achieved? | The Indian Express

Ambedkar’s ideas of social justice still haunt country’s constitutional apparatus. How much have we achieved? | The Indian Express

Written by Soli J. Sorabjee |Updated: April 18, 2019 9:17:57 am

The writer is a former attorney general of India.

Ambedkar’s ideas of social justice still haunt country’s constitutional apparatus. How much have we achieved?

Ambedkar believed that unless the moral values of a constitution are upheld, the grandiloquent words in it will not protect the freedom and democratic values of the people.

BR Ambedkar (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

B R AMBEDKAR is rightly regarded as the principal architect of our Constitution. In the course of his labours, he studied the constitutions of several countries and worked tirelessly.