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Athavale, Munde, Uddhav to address rallies all over state
Ramu Bhagwat, TNN | May 25, 2011, 01.05am IST
NAGPUR: On Sunday, the Ramdas Athavale-led faction of the Republican
Party of India, which is believed to be cementing a new political
alliance with saffron combine of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya
Janata Party, held a successful public rally in Mumbai. Boosted by the
response, top leaders of the three parties will now hold joint rallies
all over the state.
Sources said Athavale, Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray and
BJP veteran Gopinath Munde will share the platform for the first time
and tour all over the state holding public meetings. In Vidarbha, two
such rallies will be held - in Nagpur on June 2 and in Amravati on May
29. Such joint rallies will also be held in Nasik and Aurangabad on
May 27 and 28 respectively.
Effectively, the new political combination that has been formed for
the first time to formally divert Dalit votes to the Sena-BJP alliance
will be up for public demonstration all over the state before their
scheduled protest march to Mantralaya on June 9, said RPI (Athavale)
group's Vidarbha region secretary Rajendra Wankhede.
The pro-Dalit RPI is a much divided house with major factions led by
Athavale, Prakash Ambedkar, Jogendra Kawade and Sulekha Kumbhare.
These factions have failed to unite into one entity though that was
what most of the Ambedkarite masses desire. Such a united RPI would be
a force to reckon with as the state has backward class votes that add
up to a decisive 18%. The Congress and NCP have, for over a decade,
tried to keep the flock together in order to get block votes of the
Dalits transferred to them. But nursing a grudge that his electoral
loss from Shirdi Lok Sabha reserved seat was because of the
NCP-Congress betrayal, Athavale is believed to have raised a revolt
and decided to join the saffron parties.
The immediate threat from this new political combination will be
tested in the municipal corporation elections as well as zilla
parishad polls scheduled in the state barely seven months away. The
Congress as well as NCP are trying to downplay the threat, claiming
that Athavale faction has influence only in few pockets of Mumbai and
western Maharashtra and thus not pay much dividends for the saffron
combine.
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