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AURANGABAD: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has appealed all political parties to vote for Gangadhar Dhage, a poor Dalit from a slum area who has been fielded by the party for the post of mayor.
MIM MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel in a Press release stated that since many years almost all parties have garnered votes in the name of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and now is the time of showing their gratitude to the architect of the Indian constitution by voting for a Dalit candidate, who could become the first Dalit mayor of the city.
Imtiaz questioned the logic of the BJP who have fielded Raju Shinde, a Dalit as their party’s mayor candidate and asked why the ruling Shiv Sena and BJP did not bother to field a Dalit in the last 25 years when they were in power and its only now when MIM has fielded a Dalit that other parties are thinking about them.
He said that cutting across party lines all corporators should create history in the city by electing a Dalit candidate.
MIM which has 25 corporators in the municipal corporation has support of many independents and BSP which has five corporators. Imtiaz has appealed the so called secular parties like the Congress and the NCP to help a Dalit come the city’s mayor.
