The RPI (A) chief said the seat-sharing talks are underway, and he spoke to the BJP's Maharashtra polls in-charge, Bhupendra Yadav, about his party's demands.
Former Union Minister Ramdas Athawale asserted that NDA government will be formed under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He even recited a sarcastic poem attacking INDIA alliance.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale snapped back at Shashi Tharoor, correcting his spellings and rebuking him for dragging him into the tweet.
Ramdas Athawalesaid the BJP-led government had no benefit from the abrogation of Article 370 but for the people of J&K, it has paved the way for large scale development and the people would reap its benefits slowly and silently in coming times.
Asked about several instances of Dalits facing intimidation for sporting moustache or riding a horse being reported in Gujarat, Athawale, a prominent Dalit leader from Maharashtra, said he will raise the issue with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.
The minister also added that of these 58,098, all eligible persons have been paid one time cash assistance and released from this work.
The issues of Maratha reservation and relief measures in the aftermath of cyclone Tauktae would also be discussed with the prime minister, Ramdas Athawale said.
The BJP leader sought imposition of President’s rule in Maharashtra in the wake of former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh’s allegation of corruption against state home minister Anil Deshmukh.
On alliance in the poll-bound Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry, the RPI president said his party wants to contest these elections together with the BJP.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale had became a household name after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to the “Go Corona, Corona Go” slogan he had coined to ward off the novel coronavirus.
Talking to reporters, Ramdas Athawale, whose party is an ally of the BJP-led central government, also said he will seek four to five seats for his Republican Party of India(A) in the West Bengal polls. He claimed Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent visit to West Bengal has proved that the days of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government are numbered.
Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on October 27 said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been admitted to a hospital as a precautionary measure.
RPI's district party chief Rajesh Goyal further said that such posters would be put up all over the State to show the party’s support for Kangana Ranaut.
With the tensions between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) prompting calls for boycott of Chinese products, Athawale has pitched in his own two-bits
The video was reportedly shot at Gateway of India on February 20 during a prayer session to stop the spread of the coronavirus in China.
Bhagwat’s speech gained the ire of Asaduddin Owaisi also, who pointed out that no one religion can be the basis of India
Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar were sworn in by Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at 8 am on Saturday at a hush hush ceremony in Raj Bhavan in Mumbai after dramatic midnight developments, leading to the lifting of the President's rule.
The Union minister made the remarks after he called on Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari along with other allies of the BJP requesting him to invite the Amit Shah-led party to form government in Maharashtra.
Athawale said the BJP and the Sena should leave 18 seats for the other allies, including 10 for his party
While Ramdas Athawale might be content with just one or two seats in the NDA, Prakash Ambedkar is demanding 22 from the Congress-NCP, which even in an election that might be not as crucial as this one, would be ridiculous.
Athawale said a negative message has gone to RPI (A) cadres in the wake of the Sena-BJP combine not taking his party along while announcing the seat-sharing deal.
Athawale said he would have preferred to fight the Lok Sabha polls from Mumbai South-Central seat currently held by Shiv Sena's Rahul Shewale.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, he said, "I took efforts for the BJP-Sena patch-up and worked for the alliance. But they left us in the lurch by not giving any seat to the RPI."
Addressing a rally here Sunday, Athawale, whose Republican Party of India (A) is part of the NDA, said the Sena president Uddhav Thackeray should show magnanimity and leave the seat for him.
The government does not have so much money and it has sought funds from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), but it is not obliging, he told reporters at Islampur in Sangli district on December 17.