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N. Sivaraj becomes first president of the Scheduled Castes Federation

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N. Sivaraj becomes first president of the Scheduled Castes Federation
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At Nagpur, Madras Dalit leader N. Sivaraj was elected first president of the new All-India Scheduled Castes Federation founded with Ambedkar.

N. Sivaraj was a Dalit leader from Madras who had worked with the Justice Party and the Self-Respect Movement. In 1942 the Madras Scheduled Castes Federation and Ambedkar's Independent Labour Party were merged into the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation. The new organisation was founded by Sivaraj and B. R. Ambedkar at a national convention in Nagpur in July 1942. Sivaraj presided over the convention and was elected its first president.

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