Who among the following was associated with the newspaper 'Mooknayak'?

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Maharashtra Talathi Official Paper 2019 (25.07.19 Shift 1)

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. R. Ambedkar.

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B. R. Ambedkar:

Popularly known as Baba Saheb, He was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly and is called the ‘Father of the Indian Constitution’.
Ambedkar was against caste-based discrimination in society and advocated for the Dalits to organise and demand their rights.
He established the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha to promote education and socio-economic improvements among the Dalits.
He started magazines like Mooknayak, Equality Janta and Bahishkrit Bharat.
Mooknayak (The Chief of the Voiceless) was a fortnightly Marathi newspaper published on alternate Saturdays from Bombay that began in 1920 by Babasaheb Ambedkar.
He authored several books and essays.
Some of them are The Annihilation of Caste, Pakistan or the Partition of India, The Buddha and his Dhamma, The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India, the Administration and Finance of the East India Company, etc.
Ambedkar founded the Independent Labour Party (later transformed into the Scheduled Castes Federation) in 1936.
Ambedkar died of ill health in 1956 in Delhi.