The police had refused to call off search and combing operations for youth involved in enforcing the bandh called by Dalit-Bahujan groups on December 3 to protest the Bhima-Koregaon violence, says Ambedkar
Bharatiya Republican Paksha-Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar said that members of smaller Hindutva groups were calling for people to be murdered, and could lead to anarchy.
Ambedkar, who is the grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, pointed to a Facebook post by a man, who he claimed was a supporter of Sambhajirao Bhide "Guruji" of the Shivprathisthan Hindustan, calling for Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, food and civil supplies minister Girish Bapat and senior journalist Sudheendra Kulkarni to be killed.
Ambedkar also said that the police had refused to call off search and combing operations for youth involved in enforcing the bandh called by Dalit-Bahujan groups on December 3 to protest the Bhima-Koregaon violence despite orders by Fadnavis.
He blamed Bhide and Pune-based Milind Ekbote of the Samasta Hindu Aghadi for the violence.
Ambedkar pointed to how one Raosaheb Patil, who he claimed was a supporter of Bhide, had called for the trio to be killed in the backdrop of the Bhima- Koregaon violence. In his Facebook post, Patil called them "insects who had infected the country and Maharashtra." The message was posted at 10:12 PM on January 1, the very day when violence broke out.
"The RSS can be scrutinised through the BJP, while other Hindutva groups have no such scrutiny," he charged. "According to my deductive logic, there is friction and a struggle for one-upmanship between these scrutinised and unscrutinised Hindutva groups. These unscrutinised groups can use any means possible," said Ambedkar, adding that these hardliners, who operated sans any control, could "create Hafeez Saeeds in the country."
"Who is their guru? Sambhaji Bhide is their Guru," said Ambedkar, pointing to how Patil's profile had photos of Bhide apart from Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
He sought that the Police commissioner and additional police commissioner of Pune, the Pune rural superintendent of police and additional superintendent and the local state intelligence chief be shunted to non-executive posts for keeping Fadnavis in the dark about this.
Ambedkar said even after Fadnavis had called for a stop to the combing operations, the police had continued their search in Powai, Aurangabad, Kalyan, Kolhapur, Govandi, Nilanga in Latur and Kandhar in Nanded. "The question is if the police are functioning independently," he asked.
The former Lok Sabha MP from Akola charged that while 3,000 people had been rounded off or were likely to be arrested, 16 underage boys had been nabbed by the police and produced before the juvenile court. He accused the Nanded police and district administration of going soft on the policeman who had fatally assaulted a 16-year boy Yogesh Jadhav during the bandh leading to his death.
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Bharatiya Republican Paksha-Bahujan Mahasangh chief Prakash Ambedkar blamed Bhide and Pune-based Milind Ekbote of the Samasta Hindu Aghadi for the violence
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