http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Sena-BJP-seals-tie-up-with-RPI/articleshow/10733930.cms
Sena-BJP seals tie-up with RPI
Ambarish Mishra, TNN | Nov 15, 2011, 03.01AM IST
MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena-BJP combine on Monday formally sealed its poll
partnership with the Ramdas Athavale-led Republican Party of India
(RPI) for the statewide civic elections. The Hindutva-Dalit alliance
marks a watershed as it re-scripts caste equations in state politics.
However, the RPI has set the cat among the pigeons with its demand
that the Sena-BJP should agree to ''stringent'' implementation of the
Anti-Atrocities Act. The RPI wants the demand to be included in the
alliance's common minimum programme.
Earlier, Sena CEO Uddhav Thackeray, BJP's Gopinath Munde and Athavale
announced the tripartite alliance at a press meet.
''We will contest the civic elections as allies. There will be no
secret understanding with the Congress or NCP,'' Thackeray said. ''Our
chief task is to trounce the ruling Congress-NCP alliance in the civic
polls,'' added Munde.
The Sena-BJP-RPI juggernaut will be formally launched in Mumbai next
month in the presence of Bal Thackeray and L K Advani. The poll
process for elections to 196 civic bodies will begin on Tuesday.
Observers say the RPI's move to extract an assurance from its
new-found allies on ''stringent'' implementation of the
Anti-Atrocities Act is a ploy aimed at pacifying its Dalit followers.
But the Sena-BJP is worried that the RPI's demand may upset its Hindu
vote-bank. However, MP and Sena leader Subhash Desai said, ''I don't
think it is a major irritant in our alliance.''
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