A giant of Ambedkarite movement passes away
1 year, 5 months ago

A giant of Ambedkarite movement passes away

Hindustan Times  

Earlier this month, one of the pantheons of the Ambedkarite Buddhist movement in India and among the last surviving associates of Dr BR Ambedkar, Lahori Ram Balley, died in Jalandhar. In his late years, Dr Ambedkar would often oblige people visiting his Delhi house, and many scheduled caste employees would frequent his residence. During one such meeting on September 30, 1956, while Balley was taking notes on one of Dr Ambedkar’s final political decisions, the founding of the Republican Party of India, he saw the great constitutionalist suffer a sharp bout of chest pain. From December 6, 1956, the date of Dr Ambedkar’s death, till July 6, 2023, Balley was a household name for the Ambedkarite community worldwide, for 67 years.

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