Fadnavis campaigns in Wardha, thanks NCP for making it ‘Congress-free’
Maharashtra Deputy CM says by fielding an NCP candidate from Wardha, Sharad Pawar has crippled its MVA partner; ‘Cong. first opposed Dr. Ambedkar, now doing the same to his grandson’
laiming that the 2024 Lok Sabha election results would see not a “Modi wave but a Modi tsunami”, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday took potshots at NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar for helping make Wardha in the State’s Vidarbha region a “Congressfree” zone.
Addressing a rally in Wardha while campaigning for BJP candidate and incumbent MP Ramdas Tadas, Mr. Fadnavis mocked the Congress and Mr. Pawar by saying: “We must thank Pawar sahib for achieving what we [BJP] could not do in Wardha. He ensured that the Congress symbol disappears
Cfrom here.” He added that Mr. Pawar had inadvertently “fulfilled BJP’s dream”.
Mr. Fadnavis was alluding to the fact that the Congress could not find a suitable candidate in Wardha, despite Mahatma Gandhi’s connect with the place. The Sevagram Ashram in
Wardha was Gandhiji’s residence from 1936 onwards.
Long a Congress bastion, Wardha is the only Lok Sabha seat in Vidarbha that the Mr. Pawarled NCP faction will contest in this election. The BJP’s Ramdas Tadas had defeated Congress candidates in the 2014 and the 2019 elections.
Addressing a second rally in the nearby Akola, Mr. Fadnavis further claimed that the Congress had never allowed Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar to get elected in any election, and the party would do the same now with his grandson, Prakash Ambedkar, who is the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s (VBA) candidate from the Akola Lok Sabha seat.
‘Constitution supreme’ He also rubbished allegations by the Opposition that the BJP was trying to change the Constitution.
“Nobody can change the Constitution or curtail the rights provided to citizens” Mr. Fadnavis said while campaigning for the BJP candidate for Akola, Anup Dhotre.