Pune: Union minister and senior RPI (A) leader Ramdas Athawale Sunday said he was disappointed thathis party was not considered when allies BJP and Shiv Senaformed an alliance for the forth coming Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly polls.
Athawale said he would have preferred to fight the LokSabha polls from Mumbai South-Central seat currently held byShiv Sena's Rahul Shewale.The Union Minister of State for Social Justice also said that the BJP could give his party the Mumbai North-East Lok Sabha seat in case it could not get Sena to part with theSouth-Central seat.
BJP's Kirit Somaiya is the Lok Sabha MP from Mumbai North-East but his candidature this time might be a problem since Somaiya is a bitter critic of the Sena leadership and the latter are opposed to him. Athawale said he would meet Maharashtra Chief MinisterDevendra Fadnavis on the issue of RPI being ignored in the BJP-Sena alliance.
He also demanded that cases slapped against Dalits inconnection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence should bewith drawn.
(With inputs from PTI)
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