Pune | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj created Hindu vote bank, says Chandrakant Patil
Pune : Policenama online – Pune | Bharatiya Janata Party’s state president Chandrakant Patil while speaking at a press conference on Tuesday said that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had created the Hindu vote bank and former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had nurtured it.
His statement has created a flutter in political circles in the city. He said it is wrong for an aspirant to say that he has been denied a ticket. He added that the ticket and the vote bank belongs to a party which makes lot of efforts to nurture it. (pune)
Nationalist Congress Party MLA Amol Mitkari has criticised Patil’s statement. He said that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had set up a welfare state for farmers and it was not a state of Hindus. He said Muslims were also a part of the state and Patil should be aware of this.
He added that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s name was being used as per the party’s convenience and sometime ago, Prime Minister Modi had been compared with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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