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With the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 just round the corner, a video of senior Congress leader Nitin Raut, where he claimed that he was dropped from the Vilas Rao Deshmukh cabinet for greeting the CM with 'Jai Bheem' slogan, has gone viral. Consequently, BJP National spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla, and several other leaders took this opportunity to slam the Congress as an ‘Anti-Dalit’ party. Nitin Raut's claim In the viral clip, Congress leader Nitin Raut can be heard saying that he was dropped as a minister from Vilas Rao Deshmukh cabinet because he greeted Deshmukh and other Congress leaders with "Jai Bheem" slogan.
Poonawalla took to X to post a self-recorded video, criticising the Congress, and Rahul Gandhi . "Senior leader Nitin Raut discloses that he was dropped as a minister from Vilas Rao Deshmukh cabinet only because he greeted him & Congress leaders with "Jai Bheem" slogan Congress has an Anti Dalit and Anti Ambedkar DNA !" the post read. In his 35-second clip Shehzad Poonawalla claimed that during 1980-1990s, Indira Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi made Ambedkar contest for the elections twice.
" All these instances have always proved that Congress is Anti-Dalit. When will they tell us that their own motive is to insult the Dalits. The Congress is against election, Dalits, and Ambedkar," he said.
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