Senior journalist and social activist Suresh Badiger has said that B.R. Ambedkar was the first to lay a strong foundation for all the women-centric policies being pursued by the Union Government and also, State Governments.
Delivering a special lecture on Dr. Ambedkar as part of the 131st birth anniversary celebrations of the late leader organised by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Department of English and Department of Kannada at the Sharnbasva University here on Wednesday, Mr. Badiger said that Dr. Ambedkar had resigned from the Jawaharlal Nehru Cabinet when his proposed Hindu Code Bill providing special rights and privileges to women was rejected by the then Prime Minister.
He said that the Hindu Code Bill framed by Dr. Ambedkar was the first concrete Bill extending the right over ancestral property to women, maternity leave of six months and other benefits. “However, Nehru had rejected the Bill citing various reasons,” he said.
