Prakash Ambedkar: Sharad Pawar-led NCP party is not "secular"

Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar said on Thursday that he is open to an alliance with the Congress but not with the NCP, claiming that the Sharad Pawar-led party is not "secular". Ambedkar announced earlier this week that his party, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh, would join hands with Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM in the coming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections."I have joined hands with the AIMIM and now kept the doors open for a tie-up with Congress. But I am not
comfortable with the NCP, as its Lok Sabha