The excerpt is from one of Dr B R Ambedkar’s speeches during the Bombay Legislative Council on Village Panchayats Bill debates in 1932.

A new phase of consumer boom is on the anvil, leading to a demand-oriented recovery.

An interventionist State cannot be the right setting for a Liberal Budget.

The budget is not merely a statement of income and expenditure. It signifies much more.

A Parliament and State Assemblies elected based on the adult franchise selected as the organs of the people’s will.

A Parliament and State Assemblies elected based on the adult franchise selected as the organs of the people’s will.

By the end of 1951, it was decided to hold a general election based on an adult franchise, which produced an electorate of 190 million.

Particular attention should be paid to removing or at least mitigating the cynicism and frustration of the individual voter.

Neither militarily, ideologically, nor morally can one part of humanity afford to write off any other.