Exhorting Maharashtra’s leaders to cease indulging in politics over the Maratha quota, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Udayanraje Bhosale, a direct descendant of the Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji, has warned that the delay in implementing the reservation law could spark uncontrollable outrage among the many group in the State.
Rebuking the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities for its tardiness in guaranteeing the implementation of the Maratha quota law, Mr. Bhosale mentioned that the simmering resentment among the many Maratha group was in actual hazard of spilling over.
“If that happens, things could go out of hand. So, I urge every leader in the State not to wait until this moment and instead act fast… every MP and MLA in the State has a sizable Maratha electorate in his or her constituency. So, it is pointless to discriminate one community against another,” mentioned the Rajya Sabha MP from Satara. He mentioned it was in each chief’s curiosity to see that justice was finished for the Maratha group.
Mr. Bhosale shared the dais along with his rival and cousin, BJP legislator Shivendraraje Bhosale (one other descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji), at a operate in Satara, the place they urged the State’s politicians to shut ranks over the problem.
‘Merit-based approach’
Earlier, Mr. Bhosale mentioned if the MVA authorities did not get the Maratha quota law applied, then reservation for all communities should be scrapped. Mr. Bhosale had referred to as for a merit-based strategy as an alternative.
On Thursday, Mr. Udayanraje Bhosale mentioned the Maratha group didn’t need a quota whose advantages had been sliced off from the OBC reservation. “Do not give us [the Maratha community] a quota while disadvantaging other communities. Our point is when all other backward communities are availing of reservation benefits, then why is that the Maratha community is being excluded?” he requested.
Mr. Bhosale noticed that it was a fallacy in perceiving the Maratha group as ‘upwardly mobile’ simply because a few of its group members had been stalwarts in a lot of areas.
‘Future looks bleak’
“The condition of labourers and students within the Maratha community is especially parlous… several of them are financially disadvantaged. Today, Maratha students are passed over despite securing more marks than their counterparts from other reserved communities,” he mentioned, stating that the long run regarded bleak for these college students. Mr. Bhosale additional urged the group to not vote for these leaders in elections who didn’t get up for his or her rights.
Mr. Bhosale was earlier with Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He joined the BJP earlier than the final Lok Sabha elections, solely to be trounced by the NCP’s Shriniwas Patil.
The storm of the Maratha agitation all through 2018 noticed Mr. Bhosale forged in the function of a presumably necessary mediator between the group’s pursuits and the then BJP authorities.
