A new front is taking shape in BJP-ruled Maharashtra, having the capability of upsetting the calculations of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance (Congress-NCP), being fashioned by Sharad Pawar.
The Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) and Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), by joining hands, have the potential to stir up the politics of the state and cut into the Congress’s Dalit-Muslim votes.
The Bhim-Mim alliance (Bhim means followers of Bhimrao Ambedkar and Mim is the short form of the AIMIM) broadcast its arrival in two rallies in Solapur and Aurangabad. And those by no means could be described as ordinary mobilisation.
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