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In Nashik, if Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi comes to power, National President Adv. Prakash Ambedkar told. He said that this decision was taken in the state executive meeting of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi held in Anjaneri (Nashik) area. (Adv. Prakash Ambedkar takes two days party working committee meeting)

In the two-day meeting, the party’s strategy in local government and other elections, as well as alliances, were discussed.

In this meeting, every member presented their opinion. Adv. Prakash Ambedkar presided. In the meeting, political issues were discussed and various resolutions were agreed in the meeting on the issues on which the upcoming local self-government bodies and other elections should be contested, what criteria should be decided for ticket distribution.

Special attention to Nashik

Adv. Ambedkar’s hasty visit to Nashik a few days ago and now again his arrival in Nashik on the occasion of the state executive and his stay for two days, it has been pointed out that Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi has paid special attention to Nashik, so other parties are starting to feel a thump. Balasaheb Ambedkar and Uddhav Thackeray coming on the same platform for a program has created a strong possibility of a new political equation.

Regional President Rekhatai Thakur, Regional Vice President Kisan Chavan, Darhyvardhan Pundkar, Nagorao Panchal, Disha Pinki Sheikh, Somnath Salunkhe, Govind Dalvi, Anil Jadhav, Sarvajit Bansode, Siddharth Mokale, Regional Spokesperson Farooq Ahmed, Priyadarshi Telang and invited members Ashok Sonone, Kushal Meshram, Vishnu Jadhav, Mahila Aghadi General Secretary Arundhati Shirsat and others were present.

Uddhav Thackeray, Prakash Ambedkar share dais, attack BJP, pledge to ‘save democracy’

Although both sides stuck to their stated position that there was nothing political about the event, Uddhav Thackeray and Prakash Ambedkar hit out at the BJP, terming it a threat to Indian democracy.

Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi president Prakash Ambedkar on Sunday shared the dais at Shivaji Mandir at an event to relaunch a website on Prabodhankar Thackeray. The coming together of Thackeray and Ambedkar fuelled talks about a new political realignment in Maharashtra.

Although both sides stuck to their stated position that there was nothing political about the event, Thackeray and Ambedkar hit out at the BJP, terming it a threat to Indian democracy.

Warning of a threat to the Constitution and the judicial system, Thackeray urged people to pull down the government at the Centre and in Maharashtra. “Indian Constitution has accorded equal rights and powers to both the Centre and state. Unfortunately the Centre seems to be usurping all the powers of the state blatantly violating the laws enshrined in the Constitution,” he said.

“Union Law Minister Kiran Rijuju recently said the appointment of judges lacked transparency. Which means gradually the Centre wants to replace the existing collegium system to appoint judges. Instead, they want the PM to directly appoint judges. Look at how they are dismantling institutions,” he added.

“We have to take this initiative together to uphold Indian democracy and Constitution. Otherwise what right do we have to recall the great work of our grandfather’s Prabodhankar Thackeray and Babasaheb Ambedkar. Babasaheb Ambedkar was personally subjected to atrocities. Yet, he fought valiantly. Whereas, Prabodhankar Thackeray, who had witnessed the wrongs in the system, joined hands and supported Ambedkar to bring social reforms. Time has come to rise and work together,” Thackeray asserted.

Addressing the audience, Prakash Ambedkar said, “We have to choose whether we want democracy or dictatorship. As a political party we will take a decision. But that is not enough. Each and every individual who exercises his or her vote will have to choose between democracy and dictatorship.”

“How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.”

The above are words of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar which are very essential in the contemporary times, when there is attacked on Indian Constitution is happening.

Adv. Prakash Ambedkar working on the same goals of reducing the contradictions by joining hands with Uddhav Thackeray.