RPI chief Ramdas Athavale demands 40 seats in civic body polls
Published: Thursday, Oct 20, 2011, 8:00 IST
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA
Ramdas Athavale, president, Republican Party of India, has asked for
40 of the 227 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
elections which are due in February.The Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata
Party combine governs the BMC, and the RPI has joined the alliance.
The RPI, which is backed by many Dalits, was earlier allied with the
Congress-Nationalist Congress Party.
Athavale said that talks were on with both the Sena and the BJP over
the number of seats to be given to the RPI. He added that it was the
support of the Dalit voters that helped the BJP candidate Bhimrao
Tapkir win the Khadakwasla seat against the NCP candidate Harshada
Wanjale. He said such support of Dalits not just in Mumbai but in all
the local elections would benefit the Sena-BJP-RPI alliance right up
to the next assembly elections in 2014.
He also played down remarks by Sena chief Bal Thackeray that Dadar
station be renamed Chaityabhoomi(after the Ambedkar memorial), saying
this demand was made by the NCP and Congress to divide the
Sena-BJP-RPI alliance.
"I don't understand this business about making a demand. The
Congress-NCPrule in Maharashtra and the Congress-led UPA governs
India. They renamed the Bandra-Worli Sea Link after Rajiv Gandhi
overnight, so why can't they similarly legislate right away about
Dadar? Why take so much time?" he asked.
He said Thackeray spoke out against renaming Dadar only because he
needed to pacify some Dadar residents who had complained to him. He
also pointed out that the RPI had never raised the demand for renaming
Dadar station after Chaityabhoomi because that would be confused with
the memorial.
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