VBA declares Ambedkar as CM candidate for 2019 polls

Aurangabad | Monday | 9th July, 2018

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We have asked them for 12 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state. Aurangabad: Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) leader Prakash Ambedkar, who visited the city on Monday, expressed the intent of his party to contest the Lok Sabha and assembly elections under the banner of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA).The outfit also declared Ambedkar as its CM candidate. “Only public meetings held by us have stirred a storm in the political circles. The candidates pitched by the parties in the recent elections have showed that the parties fear our movement against nepotism in politics,” Ambedkar said.“We have openly pitched our alliance offer to the Congress Party. “The political outfit is open to ally with Congress and other left parties,” Ambedkar said in a press conference.Grandson of Babasaheb Ambedkar, who is on a state-wide district-level tour to gather support for his new political banner, has so far visited Kolhapur, Satara, Osamanabad, Solapur and Aurangabad.He said that the response from the youth of the backward and neglected sections of the society has been impressive..