Is it true Ambedkar wanted Sanskrit as India's official language?
It is reported that he did, and the claim is often raised to complicate the picture of a man supposed to be hostile to everything associated with high Hindu tradition. Several accounts say that around 1949 a proposal to adopt Sanskrit as the official language of the Union was moved and that Ambedkar was among those willing to support it. If so, the logic is not hard to follow: Sanskrit belonged to no living region and so favoured no one province over another, which is exactly the objection raised against Hindi.
The site flags this rather than asserting it, because the primary record is thinner than the frequency of the claim suggests, and much of what circulates is second-hand. What can be said is that it would not have been out of character. His objection to Hinduism was to a system of graded inequality, not to a language or a body of learning, and he drew on Sanskrit sources throughout his own scholarship.