Nagpur: The DMK is a robust political outfit that can come to power in Tamil Nadu. Though no longer contesting right here, the acronym — DMK — is the Congress celebration’s victory mantra in Nagpur the place it has pitted a slightly weak ‘outsider’ Nana Patole against BJP heavyweight Nitin Gadkari.
The Congress is desperately hoping that the Dalit-Muslim-Kunbi (DMK) consolidation would come to its rescue this time. Patole belongs to Kunbi group which in conjunction with the Dalits and Muslims are traditionally prone in opposition to the Congress.
If these big three vote chunks favour the Congress the margin of two.84 lakh votes of Gadkari in his Lok Sabha debut election in 2014 may shrink, supporters of Patole declare. According to the celebration, of the 21 lakh citizens, nearly 12 fall in the DMK class.
Focusing in this technique, the Congress is hoping Patole emerges as the 2019’s largest ‘large killer’ as town votes on April 11. Patole was certainly a large killer in 2014 when he defeated Nationalist Congress Party’s stalwart Praful Patel from Bhandara-Gondia constituency in eastern Vidarbha. But that point he was in the BJP and were given elected driving the Modi wave.
A known (political) celebration hopper, Patole surrender the BJP accusing the Modi government of being apathetic toward farmers. Its any other topic that he had surrender the Congress in 2009 for the same reason.
Soon after returning to the Congress in 2017, he expressed interest in taking on Gadkari from Nagpur and the celebration obliged him dumping Vilas Muttemwar who had gained the seat for the Congress for 4 phrases in a row — 1998 to 2014.
“With no wave like final time, we are assured that our conventional citizens — Dalits, Muslims and Kunbis — would come again to us,” said town Congress president Vikas Thakre who's steering Patole’s campaign. He claimed that there are 4 lakh citizens each of Dalits and Kunbis while the Muslim vote is to the tune of three lakh. “If the voter turnout is over 60%, we will be able to get the threshold over BJP,” said Thakre.
It is after a lapse of 28 years that the Congress has fielded a Kunbi candidate right here. The final one was Datta Meghe in 1991 who gained that election. Though the RSS was born and proliferated from Nagpur, it has till recently been a Congress stronghold.
Gadkari was best the second one BJP candidate to have gained from right here. The first was Banwarilal Purohit — the current Tamil Nadu governor — in 1996 having converted from the Congress to the BJP as a ‘Ram Bhakt’ in the Babri aftermath.
At the similar time, there are a number of exceptions from the previous that defy the ‘DMK’ concept. Muttemwar, the four-time winner from town for the Congress was a Komthi, a minority vote right here. A Parsee, Gev Awari gained the seat for the Congress in 1977.
On the opposite hand, his Kunbi roots may no longer be sure a win for Vinod Gudadhe Patil in 1999 who contested on the BJP ticket however was defeated by means of Muttemwar. The two BJP winners of the seat — Gadkari and Purohit — are high caste Brahmins disproving the ‘ DMK ‘ myth.
“The Congress is resorting to caste, group and non secular divide now because the celebration is aware of it has no chance of profitable this seat. Patole can by no means fit Gadkari in character or efficiency. No marvel they are coming out with imaginary ideas of ‘DMK’ which hasn't ever worked in Nagpur,” said Sudhakar Deshmukh, Gadkari’s election in-charge for the April 11 elections. He is assured that Gadkari would win 5 lakh votes this time on the basis of his developmental schedule.
The Congress is desperately hoping that the Dalit-Muslim-Kunbi (DMK) consolidation would come to its rescue this time. Patole belongs to Kunbi group which in conjunction with the Dalits and Muslims are traditionally prone in opposition to the Congress.
If these big three vote chunks favour the Congress the margin of two.84 lakh votes of Gadkari in his Lok Sabha debut election in 2014 may shrink, supporters of Patole declare. According to the celebration, of the 21 lakh citizens, nearly 12 fall in the DMK class.
Focusing in this technique, the Congress is hoping Patole emerges as the 2019’s largest ‘large killer’ as town votes on April 11. Patole was certainly a large killer in 2014 when he defeated Nationalist Congress Party’s stalwart Praful Patel from Bhandara-Gondia constituency in eastern Vidarbha. But that point he was in the BJP and were given elected driving the Modi wave.
A known (political) celebration hopper, Patole surrender the BJP accusing the Modi government of being apathetic toward farmers. Its any other topic that he had surrender the Congress in 2009 for the same reason.
Soon after returning to the Congress in 2017, he expressed interest in taking on Gadkari from Nagpur and the celebration obliged him dumping Vilas Muttemwar who had gained the seat for the Congress for 4 phrases in a row — 1998 to 2014.
“With no wave like final time, we are assured that our conventional citizens — Dalits, Muslims and Kunbis — would come again to us,” said town Congress president Vikas Thakre who's steering Patole’s campaign. He claimed that there are 4 lakh citizens each of Dalits and Kunbis while the Muslim vote is to the tune of three lakh. “If the voter turnout is over 60%, we will be able to get the threshold over BJP,” said Thakre.
It is after a lapse of 28 years that the Congress has fielded a Kunbi candidate right here. The final one was Datta Meghe in 1991 who gained that election. Though the RSS was born and proliferated from Nagpur, it has till recently been a Congress stronghold.
Gadkari was best the second one BJP candidate to have gained from right here. The first was Banwarilal Purohit — the current Tamil Nadu governor — in 1996 having converted from the Congress to the BJP as a ‘Ram Bhakt’ in the Babri aftermath.
At the similar time, there are a number of exceptions from the previous that defy the ‘DMK’ concept. Muttemwar, the four-time winner from town for the Congress was a Komthi, a minority vote right here. A Parsee, Gev Awari gained the seat for the Congress in 1977.
On the opposite hand, his Kunbi roots may no longer be sure a win for Vinod Gudadhe Patil in 1999 who contested on the BJP ticket however was defeated by means of Muttemwar. The two BJP winners of the seat — Gadkari and Purohit — are high caste Brahmins disproving the ‘ DMK ‘ myth.
“The Congress is resorting to caste, group and non secular divide now because the celebration is aware of it has no chance of profitable this seat. Patole can by no means fit Gadkari in character or efficiency. No marvel they are coming out with imaginary ideas of ‘DMK’ which hasn't ever worked in Nagpur,” said Sudhakar Deshmukh, Gadkari’s election in-charge for the April 11 elections. He is assured that Gadkari would win 5 lakh votes this time on the basis of his developmental schedule.
Though it has not worked, Congress hopes to wrest Nagpur seat with help of ‘DMK’ votes
![Though it has not worked, Congress hopes to wrest Nagpur seat with help of ‘DMK’ votes]()
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March 27, 2019
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