Ambedkar's grandson wants political reservation for Scheduled Castes to be abolished

BR Ambedkar's grandson Prakash Ambedkar has suggested abolition of political reservation for the Scheduled Castes, according to reports by The Hindu. His reasoning for the same being, "people have started voting for Dalit candidates in elections without any bias.”

“Political reservation should be done away with because voting for a Dalit candidate is not a big issue now. But educational and services reservation should stay as Dalits still face social discrimination,” Prakash Ambedkar was quoted as saying by the newspaper. 

His party has allied with the CPI, the CPI(M) and the Peasants and Worker’s Party (PWP) and has put up candidates in 66 seats across Maharashtra. “There was an intellectual class along with Dr. Ambedkar and even after him. That class joined the service sector and got stabilised. So what was left was a class which made politics their main agenda, but didn’t have the guts like the older generation to play independent politics. We now have the fourth generation, inclining towards independent politics, which is a good sign,” he was further quoted as saying. “A thin transformation from community atrocities to individual atrocities has occurred, which is a big change. Over a period of time even these individual atrocities will end, " he added.