Ambedkar joins as Viceroy’s Executive Labour Member
75 years ago: Ambedkar joins as Viceroy’s Executive Labour Member by Unnamati Syamasundaron July 20, 20180 bombay sentinel 75 years Read Time:6 Minute, 50 Second https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/75-years-of-ambedkar-as-viceroy-s-executive-labour-member/\ Syamasundar Unnamati It was an epoch-making event in the history of modern India when Dr. Ambedkar joined the British Viceroy’s Executive Council as Labour Member on 20th July 1942. Dr. Ambedkar truly represented the working class all his life. Once, in his childhood, he even wanted to become a mill worker. In the words of Louise Ouwerkerk, who wrote the book ‘The Untouchables of India’ in 1945, says about Ambedkar that “One of the best organised Trade Unions in India is the Bombay Municipal Workers union, started by the energetic Dr.Ambedkar in 1934”. When Dr. Ambedkar joined the British Executive Council many newspapers eulogised Dr. Ambedkar and lauded his rise as a great leader. Among all these, an article written by the Bomba