Indore, February 17: BJP President Nitin Gadkari has virtually entered the league of Rahul Gandhi with his new- found love for Dalits which was all too visible when he visited B R Ambedkar’s birthplace and later compared him to Martin Luther King.
Gadkari, who seems to be espousing several issues on the agenda of Congress and its young face Rahul in a bid to imbibe the former’s winning ways, has clearly stated that Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, minorities and other backward classes would be wooed by the party.
Soon after he landed here yesterday for the party’s National Executive, Gadkari drove straight to Mhaw and paid respects to Ambedkar at his birthplace in a clear message that his party sees the Dalits as a votebank worth wooing.
–Agencies