Political reservation is a constitutional right, says Athawale

He also threatened to protest if anybody tries to scrap the reservation and said it would be great injustice to Dalit and tribal community

Padalkar quits VBA, likely to re-join BJP to fight polls

Earlier too, there were reports that Padalkar would quit the VBA and return to the BJP.

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

Sayyada further claimed that he had visited the BJP office in Mumbai over an issue relating to Haj pilgrims.

The saffron alliance won 41 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. While the Congress won only one seat, NCP won four.

The worker whose leader lost the election would have to fork over Rs 1 lakh to the other.

Ambedkar and Shinde are contesting Lok Sabha election against each other in Solapur constituency.

Mr Athawale, who has not been given a ticket by the BJP, said, “Kanchan Kul will win by a historic margin.

Citing intelligence inputs, Mr Ambedkar said that the government failed to check the details despite receiving specific information.

The Congress and the JD(S) are allies in the government in neighbouring Karnataka.