Reason and Assertion type Assertion [A]: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar announced this on 13th October 1935 at a public meeting at Yeola, in Nasik District, he vowed that Reason [R]: “I am born a Hindu because I could not help it but I assure you that I will not die a Hindu”
Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is the correct explanation of [A]
After years of campaigns such as the Mahad Satyagraha (1927) and the Kalaram temple entry movement, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar concluded that equality was impossible within the caste order.
The Assertion is true: at the Depressed Classes conference held at Yeola in Nasik district on 13 October 1935, he publicly announced his decision to leave Hinduism.
The Reason is true: the vow he made there was, in his words, that he was born a Hindu because he could not help it, but he would not die a Hindu.
The Assertion ends with 'he vowed that', and the Reason supplies exactly what he vowed, so the Reason completes and explains the Assertion. He fulfilled the vow by embracing Buddhism at Nagpur on 14 October 1956.
Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is the correct explanation of [A] option is correct.
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