{"id":123660,"date":"2022-07-26T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=123660"},"modified":"2022-07-26T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:26:24","slug":"no-dr-ambedkar-did-not-say-reservation-should-be-abolished-the-day-a-tribal-woman-becomes-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-dr-ambedkar-did-not-say-reservation-should-be-abolished-the-day-a-tribal-woman-becomes-president\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Dr Ambedkar did not say reservation should be abolished the day a tribal woman becomes President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Droupadi Murmu took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m1jBCz6nEHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oath<\/a> to become the 15th President of India on July 25. Ever since it was announced that Murmu <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/draupadi-murmu-wins-the-presidential-election\/articleshow\/93033178.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the presidential election<\/a> by an overwhelming margin, a quote attributed to the social reformer Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is being shared on social media. The quote in Hindi reads, &#8220;The day a tribal woman becomes the President of India (the highest office), reservation should be abolished in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>[Translated from: \u091c\u093f\u0938 \u0926\u093f\u0928 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0906\u0926\u093f\u0935\u093e\u0938\u0940 \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u0930\u094d\u0935\u094b\u091a\u094d\u091a \u092a\u0926 &#8220;\u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930\u092a\u0924\u093f&#8221; \u0924\u0915 \u092a\u0939\u0941\u0902\u091a \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0917\u0940 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0906\u0930\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0923 \u0916\u0924\u094d\u092e \u0915\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0928\u093e \u091a\u093e\u0939\u093f\u090f\u0964]<\/p>\n<p>This quote, along with Dr Ambedkar&#8217;s image, has been widely shared on social media. On July 23, a page called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/602196229937319\/posts\/2240576269432632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Are Against Reservation<\/a> shared this quote on Facebook. Another anti-reservation page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/106185447436446\/posts\/877720243616292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0906\u0930\u0915\u094d\u0937\u0923 \u090f\u0915 \u0905\u092d\u093f\u0937\u093e\u092a<\/a> also posted this image.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weareagainestreservation\/posts\/pfbid0LiXQfmbaNzrtMG54mMhvBeNfBHFjP1A8NHFhGsTP1uSfH58nBDnGb4RFWfNg3qmzl\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weareagainestreservation\/posts\/2240576269432632\"><p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weareagainestreservation\/\">We Are Against Reservation<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weareagainestreservation\/posts\/2240576269432632\">Friday, 22 July 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several other Facebook accounts have shared and amplified this claim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123662 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44-1024x605.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44-1536x907.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.06.44.jpg 1564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mirroring Facebook&#8217;s trend, various <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%80+%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4+%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF+%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0+min_retweets%3A10+&amp;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter accounts<\/a> have also attributed this quote to Dr Ambedkar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123663 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.10.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1184\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.10.18.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.10.18-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.10.18-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.10.18-768x671.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1184px) 100vw, 1184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alt News has received multiple requests on our WhatsApp helpline (76000 11160) to verify authenticity of this claim.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-123660 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/no-dr-ambedkar-did-not-say-reservation-should-be-abolished-the-day-a-tribal-woman-becomes-president\/screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17-14-24\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"918\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.14.24.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.14.24.jpg 918w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.14.24-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-17.14.24-768x813.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Curiously enough, The Sentinel, a Guwahati-based English daily newspaper, also published an article under the &#8220;Letters to THE EDITOR&#8221; column where a reader opined on reservation based on the alleged quote by Dr Ambedkar. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220725071448\/https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/editorial\/abolishing-reservation-policy-603374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archived link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123681 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1702\" height=\"1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00.jpg 1702w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.41.00-1536x1041.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1702px) 100vw, 1702px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News performed a search in Hindi and English using relevant keywords. However, this did not yield any credible source of information that attributes this claim to Dr Ambedkar. This was a red flag.<\/p>\n<p>We then looked at the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mea.gov.in\/books-writings-of-ambedkar.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Ministry of External Affairs<\/a> where all the published writings and speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar are available in separate volumes. To have an understanding of these works, we reached out to experts who were involved in the research and compilation process of this project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123683 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.45.17-1024x456.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.45.17-1024x456.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.45.17-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.45.17-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.45.17.jpg 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harinarke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hari Narke<\/a>, editor of Writings &amp; Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar from volumes 17 to 22. He was a professor and the head of Mahatma Phule Chair in Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune till 2016. He pointed out, &#8220;These volumes include all works and speeches by Dr Ambedkar, including his speeches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constitutionofindia.net\/constitution_assembly_debates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constituent Assembly Debates<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a telephonic call, Narke told Alt News, &#8220;My credibility is built on my life&#8217;s work on Dr BR Ambedkar and Mahatma Jotirao Phule. It&#8217;s worth noting while I was not the editor of the first 16 volumes, I was a part of the research. Based on my research, I can state on record that Dr Ambedkar never said, &#8216;The day a tribal woman becomes the President of India, the reservation should be abolished in the country&#8217;. This is not the first time Ambedkar has been attributed to a fake quote on social media. It is worth noting the one commonality among all such fake quotes \u2014 they never attribute when or where Dr Ambedkar made these quotes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Narke continued, &#8220;First, we must look at the timing of the quote. Prior to the news of Droupadi Murmu being elected as 15th President of India, this quote didn&#8217;t surface. Second, Dr Ambedkar didn&#8217;t believe in tokenism. I feel the impact on tribal community&#8217;s welfare after Droupadi Murmu becomes the president will be similar to the impact Ram Nath Kovind&#8217;s president tenure had on Scheduled Castes community in India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Old claims with new packaging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first anti-reservation quote attributed to Dr Ambedkar. It is pertinent to note that in the past, several social media accounts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/317888468348941\/posts\/587012821436503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/groups\/PROFESSORSININDIA\/permalink\/1677818868977425\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DpRaoMng\/videos\/10157754233174486\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Observers_India\/status\/1194602017768890369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4<\/a>) have claimed that Dr Ambedkar only wanted reservations for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/lok-sabha-speaker-questions-reservation-asks-will-it-bring-development-1924652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a>, BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan said, &#8220;The idea of Ambedkarji was to bring social harmony by introducing reservation for 10 years. But what we do is to extend the reservation every 10 years. There is a shortcoming,&#8221; at the three-day Lok Manthan programme in Jharkhand&#8217;s capital Ranchi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-123682 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04-1536x1222.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-25-at-19.42.04.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anurag_bhaskar_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anurag Bhaskar<\/a>, assistant professor at Jindal Global Law School, published a paper titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/2455328X221101674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Myth of the Ten-Year Limit on Reservations and Dr Ambedkar\u2019s Stance<\/a>&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/page\/sgo\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sage Journals<\/a>, an academic journal that publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format.<\/p>\n<p>Bhaskar wrote, &#8220;Some individuals, including constitutional office holders, tend to argue that \u2018Ambedkar wanted reservations only for a decade\u2019 (Scroll, 2018). It is often argued that reservations were intended to exist only for 10 years. In this article, I demonstrate that the argument of Ambedkar wanting reservations for only a period of 10 years is a falsehood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In order to debunk the claim, he stated, &#8220;For this, one needs to examine India\u2019s constitutional history deeply from the Poona Pact (1932), as it marked a significant moment for the discourse around special rights for lower castes in political offices and a time limit upon it. In this article, the terms \u2018Depressed Classes\u2019, \u2018untouchables\u2019 and \u2018Scheduled Castes\u2019 (SCs) have been used interchangeably, as all of these appear in Dr B. R. Ambedkar\u2019s writings in different phases of history. Similarly, Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Adivasis have been used interchangeably in this article.&#8221; Those interested in reading the entire paper can do so if they have access to Sage Journal.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, &#8220;Ambedkar was not in favour of a fixed time limit of 10 years, even for political reservations for SCs and STs. His demand during the Poona Pact was that after 10 years, there should be a reconsideration of the position of reserved constituencies in joint electorates and that the SCs should decide by referendum if they want to continue with the system. This would mean deciding whether to adopt another method of electing candidates from SCs. Even though this demand was not included in the final text of the Constitution, Ambedkar had left it to the SCs to \u2018invent new ways of getting the same protection\u2019 (CAI, 1949e). In effect, without the consent of SCs and STs, political reservation cannot be done away with. The political reservations were a result of \u2018mutual agreement\u2019 (Vundru, 2017, p. 57) between SCs and caste Hindus. When it was incorporated into the Constitution, it became akin to a constitutional promise. Though the Constituent Assembly fixed a time limit of 10 years on political reservations, Ambedkar himself had prescribed the method of the constitutional amendment to extend this time limit, if the situation of SCs and STs does not improve (Vundru, 2017, p. 57). The extension of this time limit since 1960 is in consonance with the spirit of Ambedkar\u2019s demands. No time limit was set on reservations for backward classes in public services and educational institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To conclude, a quote was falsely attributed to Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar in the backdrop of Droupadi Murmu being elected as the president. Based on our research and inputs from Hari Narke, editor of Writings &amp; Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar from volumes 17 to 22, there is no evidence to suggest Dr Ambedkar said that reservation should be abolished the day a tribal woman becomes the President of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Droupadi Murmu took the oath to become the 15th President of India on July 25. Ever since it was announced that Murmu won the presidential election by an overwhelming margin, a quote attributed to the social reformer Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is being shared on social media. 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