INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ADILABAD: Amid the ongoing fight between Lambadas and Adivasis, the Adilabad MP and Thudumdebba president Soyam Bapurao has said the BJP is
not interested in inducting Congress leader and former MP Ramesh Rathod and TRS leader Anil Jadhav into the saffron party.Soyam Bapurao said
the two leaders are misguiding the people and their party cadres by saying they have got nod from the BJP central leadership to join the
Payal Shankar is also opposing the entry of these leaders into the party
They are keen on joining the upwardly mobile BJP to secure their political future.Adivasis are agitating to press their demand that the
state and central governments remove the Lambadas from the ST list
Adivasis say Lambadas got entry into ST list through questionable means without following due procedure.Ramesh Rathod had joined the TRS
from the TDP and later shifted to the Congress to contest the assembly polls from Khanapur seat but was defeated
The Congress party gave MP ticket to Ramesh Rathod while denying the same to Soyam Bapurao in the last Lok Sabha elections
an independent candidate against party candidate Soyam Bapurao in assembly polls, when both were in the Congress
Soyam Bapurao was defeated with a lesser margin of votes
chances of getting MP ticket in the Congress and Anil Jadhav had indirectly defeated the party candidate Soyam Bapurao
Given this background, Soyam Bapurao is now opposing the joining of Ramesh Rathod and Anil Jadhav in the BJP
