Mumbai A statement by senior Congress leader Nitin Raut, who is contesting the assembly elections from North Nagpur seat in Maharashtra, may further heat up the politics in the state. According to media reports, Nitin Raut has made a big allegation against former Maharashtra CM and now late Vilasrao Deshmukh. Nitin Raut alleges that he had raised the slogan of Jai Bhim in front of Vilasrao Deshmukh. For this reason, Vilasrao Deshmukh did not make him a minister in the Congress government. According to Nitin Raut, Vilasrao Deshmukh called before the swearing-in and said that prepare, you have to be made a minister, but on the day of swearing-in, it was told that the name has been removed.
Vilasrao Deshmukh was the CM in the Congress government of Maharashtra. Now Nitin Raut has accused him.
Nitin Raut says that after this he became angry and did not go to the ministry for several months. When once he went to the ministry, Vilasrao Deshmukh was holding a cabinet meeting. According to Nitin Raut, after the cabinet meeting, he met the then Minister of State Eknath Rao Gaikwad. Eknath Rao Gaekwad took Nitin Raut to the shore and said that you had loudly called Vilasrao Deshmukh Jai Bhim. Stop saying Jai Bhim. For the same reason you did not get the post of minister. Nitin Raut says that if I lose my ministerial post by saying Jai Bhim, then what could be greater pride for me than this.
On this statement of Nitin Raut, politics may heat up before the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The reason for this is that all the BJP leaders including PM Narendra Modi allege that Congress has always been against Dalits and backward people. The slogan of Jai Bhim is chanted by followers of Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, the creator of the Constitution, to honor him. The slogan of Jai Bhim is very important for the Dalit class. It is believed that after Nitin Raut’s statement, BJP can once again corner Congress by raising the issue of Jai Bhim.
