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Congress misleading on Ambedkar memorial,
Thackeray warns Dalits
Monday January 02, 2012 12:22:35 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai:
The Shiv Sena Monday asked Dalits not to get "misled" by the
central government's assurance that the Indu Mills land in
south-central Mumbai would be allotted for a memorial for B.R.
Ambedkar.
In a front-page statement in the party mouthpiece Saamna, party
chief Bal Thackeray said it "was just another carrot dangled by
the Congress" to secure Dalit votes in the forthcoming municipal
elections.
"Our Dalit brothers should not get over-enthusiastic by the
Congress's assurance that the centre has agreed 'in principle' to
allot the (12.5 acres) Indu Mills land for the memorial,"
Thackeray said.
He pointed out that the Congress's game lies in the words 'in
principle' and it may or may not materialise since it is designed
only to capture Dalit votes.
"With elections round the corner, the Congress has started doling
out many such assurances as it is desperate for votes," Thackeray
said.
Recounting the assurances made by the government in the past few
months, the aging leader said mill workers have been promised free
homes, slum dweller have been promised regularisation of all slums
that came up till 2000, Muslim reservations were announced
recently and now the assurance of Indu Mills land.
Thackeray appealed to the Dalits not to get lured by the
assurances and ensure the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata
Party-Republican Party of India alliance is voted to power.
The statement comes in the wake of Chief Minister Prithviraj
Chavan's meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh in Delhi last week on the Indu Mills land,
which belongs to the centre.
After the meeting, Chavan announced the prime minister had agreed
'in principle' to give the mill land for the Ambedkar memorial.
The Indu Mill has been in the news since nearly a month after some
Dalit activists 'captured' the land and vacated it last week
following intervention by state Home Minister R.R. Patil.
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