BJP president Nitin Gadkari accused them of adopting "use and throw" policy when dealing with the factions of dalit-dominated RPI.
BJP president Nitin Gadkari Monday hit out at Congress and NCP, calling them "casteist", and accusing them of adopting "use and throw" policy when dealing with the factions of dalit-dominated Republican Party of India.
Shiv Sena-BJP recently formed an alliance with the RPI faction led by Ramdas Athawale.
Gadkari also said that NCP belonged to a "particular community", and both the parties had been taking the RPI workers and leaders for a ride all these days.
Addressing a gathering at `Republican Mahotsava' to mark the 54th anniversary of founding of RPI by late Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, and in a show of strength of Sena-BJP-RPI alliance, Gadkari called on Athawale to ensure that the alliance dislodged the ruling Congress-NCP in the next Maharashtra elections.
Dismissing the allegation that BJP intended to tinker with the Constitution, Gadkari said it was the Congress which had amended the Constitution 82 times. The late Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister, had "violated the Constitution" during the emergency in 1975, he said.
Alleging that Congress tried to cause "misunderstanding" between the saffron parties and the RPI factions, the BJP president said, "We were always dubbed as a communal party and killers of Mahatma Gandhi."
Lauding alliance partner Shiv Sena, Gadkari said Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray was the finest example of a non-communal leader, who had given election tickets to dalits in the past.
Gadkari said during his stint as Nagpur district guardian minister, he had played a role in the beautification of Deekshabhoomi by carrying out various developmental works.
RPI leader Ramdas Athawale said the Congress regime had taken RPI for granted and his faction had struck alliance with Shiv Sena-BJP at the right time.
He said it was time to bury the past acrimony between RPI and Sena-BJP, from the days when former was with the Congress. He also accused the Congress of ditching RPI, and engineering defeats of its leaders.
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