Mumbai, June 17 (UNI) Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Harshvardhan Sapkal today lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, asking whether it was now going to give notorious don Dawood Ibrahim a chance to join the party, with Sudhakar Badgujar, who is allegedly linked to Dawood, having joined the BJP.
"The Bharatiya Janata Party considers itself the biggest party in the world, but the party that pretends to be powerful is giving admission to anyone. Till now, the BJP has given admission to only those whom it accused of corruption and also gave them ministerial posts. Now the BJP has given admission to that person who was linked to the mafia Dawood Ibrahim. Will the BJP now give entry to Dawood?," Sapkal said here today.
The Congress state president said that it is the BJP's prerogative to give entry to whomsoever it wants, but the BJP has no idea what it is doing while talking about Hindutva.
BJP MLA Nitesh Rane had levelled a serious allegation in the legislature that Sudhakar Badgujar of Nashik had thrown a party for Dawood's goon Salim Kutta. He had also shown photos of Badgujar dancing at the party in the assembly and demanded action. But now Badgujar has accepted Hindutva and the BJP has said that he is welcome (into the party fold). Does this mean that if Dawood will accept Hindutva then he will get entry tomorrow? BJP calls itself a 'party with difference' but today this party is full of goons, crooks and corrupt people, he alleged.
BJP is in power with former minister Praful Patel's Nationalist Congress Party in the property transaction case with Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts and Dawood's accomplice. Praful Patel is washed clean in the washing machine. We have been saying this continuously and it has been seen today, Sapkal added.
Even the BJP's state president and working president did not know till the afternoon that Sudhakar Badgujar was going to join the party. But the fact that he has joined the party has raised the real question of who exactly runs the BJP party, he asked.
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