Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar was an

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and social worker, best known as the man who defeated

B. R. Ambedkar Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served ...

in a general election. A

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by birth, he served as a personal assistant to Ambedkar, before contesting against him in the first Lok Sabha elections from the Mumbai North Central constituency in 1952 and defeated the latter by over 15000 votes. He was also elected from the same constituency for a second time in the 1962 elections. Narayan, who was born in the SC community, was a member of the first '' Backward Classes Commission'' of 1953, representing the Scheduled Caste communities. He was also a member of the ''Dalit Varga Sangha'', an organisation of the people of backward classes and served as the secretary of the committee when they decided to celebrate the birthday of

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on 5 April 1953. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the

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, in 1970, for his contributions to society. Kajrolkar criticized Ambedkar, saying that he is biased enough to spend funds on his own caste, the Mahar, instead of dividing the funds equally among others such as the Chambars and the Mangs. He died in 1983.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kajrolkar, Narayan Sadoba Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in social work Year of birth missing India MPs 1952–1957 Indian independence activists from Maharashtra Indian National Congress politicians Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra Social workers Gandhians Politicians from Mumbai 1983 deaths Marathi politicians India MPs 1962–1967 Social workers from Maharashtra