On 14thOctober 1949, at the Constituent Assembly Shri Brajeshwar Prasad spoke as follows;
“History is made by wrong doer and the oppressed. It is wrong on the part of wronged to submit to oppression – if objection is raised that they were not in a position to organise – we also will say that it was due to lack of political consciousness, due to lack of social sense that these things were perpetrated – it was institution, it was society itself that was responsible, it was time-spirit and the time-spirit alone that was responsible for the wrong done to the Scheduled Caste and Tribal.
The caste Hindus are not responsible for any wrong we have also suffered because caste Hindus are also been exploited by people living in this Country and wronged have been committed and perpetrated upon us.
For centuries India was under foreign subjugation, it was the subject to foreign intervention and foreign oppression from time immemorial. A caste Hindus have never flourished – it is wrong, it is atrocities to throw all the blame and responsibility on the caste Hindus, they have been victim of circumstances – I cannot accept the proposition that the caste Hindus have perpetrated any wrong on anybody.”
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