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Who among the following was strongly opposed to the idea of Panchayati Raj system in India?

During the Constituent Assembly debates, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar strongly opposed making the traditional Indian village the basic unit of the Constitution, famously…

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Who among the following was strongly opposed to the idea of Panchayati Raj system in India?

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During the Constituent Assembly debates, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar strongly opposed making the traditional Indian village the basic unit of the Constitution, famously characterizing the village as “a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism,” whereas Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Ram Manohar Lohia championed village-level decentralization.

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