13/04/2026
Press Release
Observe April 14 as Day for Annihilation of Caste
Resist the Attempts of Saffron Corporate Manuvadi Fascist Forces to Appropriate Dr. Ambedkar
The Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM) has called upon people to observe April 14, the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, as a day to expose the RSS agenda of saffronising Ambedkarite thought.
In 2016, the Modi government announced the “Ambedkar Panchteerth” development programme—a term coined by saffron think tanks. It includes Ambedkar’s birthplace at Mhow, the place in London where he stayed during his studies, Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur where he embraced Buddhism, the Mahaparinirvan site in Delhi where he passed away, and Chaityabhoomi in Mumbai where he was cremated. The government has also pushed forward plans to establish the Ambedkar Foundation at 15 Janpath, Delhi. At the same time, ideologues of the RSS—one of the oldest and largest fascist organisations in the world—are engaged in publishing literature falsely portraying Babasaheb Ambedkar as a proponent of a Hindu Rashtra and as anti-Muslim.
Ironically, this aggressive attempt to appropriate Dr. Ambedkar—the foremost leader of the most oppressed Dalits—is taking place at a time when a reactionary, corporate-backed saffron neo-fascism rooted in Manuvadi-Hindutva ideology is being imposed. This ideology stands in complete opposition to Ambedkar’s thought. When Ambedkar was drafting the Indian Constitution, the RSS, through its mouthpiece Organiser, was campaigning to replace it with the cruel Manusmriti—a text that treats Dalits, oppressed people, and women not as human beings but as subhumans.
Clearly, this newfound “affection” of Manuvadi reactionary forces toward Ambedkar—whom they had earlier denounced during the colonial period as the greatest enemy of Hinduism—is part of a calculated strategy to draw Dalits and other oppressed castes into the fold of Hindutva. This process of cultural appropriation seeks to conceal Ambedkar’s lifelong struggle against caste oppression and Brahmanism. It constitutes a grave ideological crime, especially at a time when atrocities against Dalits and oppressed communities are intensifying across India with the support of the ruling regime.
In this context, the Caste Annihilation Movement calls upon all progressive and democratic forces, and all oppressed sections—including Dalits, women, Adivasis, minorities, and transgender people—to expose, condemn, and resist this conspiracy of the Modi regime. One of Ambedkar’s greatest contributions—Annihilation of Caste—is precisely what these fascist forces seek to erase.
CAM appeals to all oppressed and working people, as well as democratic forces, to observe April 14 as the Day for Annihilation of Caste with the following demands/ call:
1. Resist the Brahmanical Hindutva Rashtra project of the fascist Sangh Parivar, which serves the massive plunder by corporate houses like Adani and Ambani and the destruction of 95% Bahujan indigenous people.
2. Build uncompromising struggles against caste system, untouchability, and all forms of caste discrimination, which are re-emerging in social life—in temples, monasteries, educational institutions, shops, and restaurants.
3. Oppose all saffron organisations that glorify the Brahmanical caste system, practice untouchability and inhuman caste customs, and carry out violent Hindutva campaigns against minorities, especially Muslims and Christians.
4. Abolish economic reservation and extend caste-based reservation to the private corporate sector.
5. Repeal all corporate-backed land laws and distribute government land and land held by religious institutions and monasteries to Dalits and the oppressed on the principle of “land to the tiller.”
6. Promote inter-caste and inter-religious marriages, and ensure full protection and dignity for such couples, to help build a caste-free, secular, gender-just society free from superstition and religious obscurantism.
7. Ensure that all Ambedkarite literature is published and translated in Indian languages in its original form without distortion by saffron fascists, and made available at subsidised rates.
8. Oppose the New Education Policy and the saffronisation of education. Stop the inclusion of religious texts in curricula, the distortion and communalisation of education, the attempt to promote astrology as science, and the imposition of hollow Brahmanical religious practices.
9. Implement caste census in India immediately, with highest priority, adequate budget, resources, and a concrete plan, as the Modi government has shown no real intention to carry it out.
Bandu Meshram, Tuhin Red, MK Dasan
(Central Convenors)
All India Caste Annihilation Movement / अखिल भारतीय जाति उन्मूलन आंदोलन
12 April 2026
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