Opinion | Why Law Minister's Reductionist Approach to History of Adult Suffrage is Misleading

Excluding Motilal Nehru from any discussion on the growth of adult suffrage in India is sacrilegious. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, by conferring the entire credit on Dr BR Ambedkar, ignored an important subtext of modern Indian history

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