Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar was the chief architect of Indian Constitution. He was born in a community that was considered untouchable and hence subjected to a lot of social and economic discrimination. Ambedkar along with some 3,65,000 of his supporters renounced Hinduism to take up Buddhism on 14 October 1956.
Ambedkar was certain about embracing only a religion with Indian roots (Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism) because he believed that the monotheistic principles of Abrahamic faiths did not fit in the pluralistic nature of the Indian society.