Powai police detain Prakash Ambedkar, heavy security at Aarey

The police official said the situation was expected to become normal soon.

VBA declares candidates along with their castes

The party has announced that it will contest all the 288 seats in the state.

Prakash Ambedkar said that the AIMIM had parted ways but if it still wanted to forge an alliance, the VBA would welcome it.

Addressing a press conference, Mr Ambedkar said that all doors for a discussion have now closed.

Speaking in Nagpur, the Dalit leader said that his party’s alliance is with the AIMIM chief and not with its Maharashtra unit leaders.

Jalil said AIMIM contested 24 seats in 2014 Assembly elections and won 2 seats.

Meanwhile, the party also gave an ultimatum to the Congress to respond to the party’s seat-sharing proposal by August 31.

The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi-AIMIM combine primarily cut into the Congress share, due to which the party could win only one seat in the state.

The VBA chief has offered the party 144 seats to contest in the upcoming Assembly polls, after initially offering only 40 seats.

41 lakh votes polled by the VBA-AIMIM alliance in Maharashtra in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.