Who can replace Gandhi on Indian currency note?
The
following article is from a series of Questions answered by Mr. Shekhar Bodhakar
I have read most of the other answers to this question and ALMOST ALL HAVE BEEN ANSWERED INCORRECTLY. The questioner is not asking (though her/his intention may be to do so) whose image should be on the currency but WHO can do that?.. (i.e) WHO has the authority to do so ?
Question: WHO can replace Gandhi on Indian currency
notes?
Answer
: Only the RBI at the
recommendations of the government can replace Gandhi on the Indian
currency with whomever is recommended. It's that simple.
Who
SHOULD be honoured by replacing Gandhi on Indian currency is another question,
My
answer to which is: No
one deserves this honour more than the iconoclast, the one and only ‘Ambedkar-the-great’
There
are TWO main reasons why Mr Gandhi's portrait should only be replaced by Dr.
Ambedkar’s portrait on the Indian currency.
1. Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar is recognised as “The Founding
Father of Modern India”, a title conferred upon Dr. Ambedkar by Columbia
University for his role in authoring the Indian constitution.
2. Dr.
Ambedkar was instrumental in the formation of the Reserve bank of India
(RBI). Mr Gandhi played
no role in this whatsoever. The RBI was established based on Dr. Ambedkar’s
works and his book named “The Problem of the Rupee – Its origin and its solution.”
Also
read: Dr. Ambedkar’s role in the formation of Reserve Bank of India https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=...
It is
not difficult to image the Indian currency with images of Dr. Ambedkar. Coins
with Dr. Ambedkar’s images have already been in circulation but were never
widely publicised.
VIDEO
(IN HINDI) : Rare coins with Dr. Ambedkar images
Apart
from the two main reasons, there are also other reasons why Mr Gandhi should be
replaced from Indian currency..
As the world gets to discover more about the real Gandhi, his thoughts and actions, he is rapidly losing his artificially inflated image as a saint, the super soul, the Mahatma. His statues are being removed from academic institutions around the world for his racist and casteist views. Ghana university being the latest at the time of writing. (See Organization for Minorities of India and Shocking Truth About Gandhi).
Dr.
Ambedkar, on the other hand, has won the hearts of many millions more people
than Mr Gandhi could ever do and is rapidly gaining the worldwide popularity he
well deserves as the champion of human and women's rights. He
is also being recognised as the symbol of knowledge
Survey
after survey has shown that Dr. Ambedkar, is the most popular Indian personality
since independence and should therefore be placed on the Indian currency
instead of Mr Gandhi, his greatest opponent.
Note: Dr. Ambedkar is so loved that no political
party risks ignoring him during elections as doing so would be detrimental to
their vote banks.
VIDEO
(NDTV Poll) : The Greatest Indian (Edited but nothing added)
Dr.
Ambedkar earned a special place in the hearts of the poor and the deprived, the
downtrodden victims of grave atrocities, the oppressed and the suppressed, the
mentally crushed and broken, the women and widows, the workers, the orphans,
and the disabled.
It is
no surprise that for this reason, the masses began to refer to
Ambedkar-the-Great as Babasaheb, meaning respected father (grandfather in some
areas) for he attended to their needs as any loving father with a large family
would do in his struggle for freedom from injustice, Why on earth
would you want anyone else's image on the national currency?
Author: Shekhar Bodhakar
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