[Prakash Ambedkar and Asaduddin Owaisi in a file photo.]
Mumbai: The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday asked Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of architect of the Constitution Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, to send a draft of his proposal to bring Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) under constitutional ambit.
The Congress and NCP, the two opposition parties in Maharshtra, asked Ambedkar to send the draft of his proposal referring the latter's speeches in election rallies wherein he blamed the Congress of failing to take action against the RSS.
"In your public rallies, we hear you want a written statement from the Congress on how to bring the RSS in the ambit of the Constitution. Send us a draft of the letter you want and we can approve it", senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and NCP state chief Jayant Patil said in a joint letter sent to Prakash Ambedkar, Dalit leader and founder of Vanchit Aghadi with AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi and other like minded parties in Maharashtra.
Congress and NCP have formed an alliance in Maharashtra for the 2019 General elctions and wants Prakash Ambedkar to join hands. The two main opposition parties in the state had earlier said Ambedkar is welcome in "the secular alliance" only if he shuns all ties with Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM. Ambedkar refused this diktat.
Besides a written gurantee from the Congress to bring the RSS in the ambit of the Constitution, Ambedkar is also demanding 12 of the total 48 seats in Maharashtra.
According to reports, Congress is offering 04 seats to Prakash Ambedkar, but said, "The issue of seat-sharing is not a big issue and can be resolved through talks."
Founded on 27 September 1925, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as RSS, is a right-wing, Hindu nationalist organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The RSS was banned once during British rule, and then thrice by the governments in post-independence India – first in 1948 when a former RSS member assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, then during the emergency (1975–77), and for a third time after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi had recently equated the RSS with Muslim Brotherhood.
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