New Delhi: Amid the ongoing controversy over reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local body elections, Maharashtra minister and Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar is planning to set up a separate forum to effectively raise the problems of the class. The Supreme Court has ordered the cancellation of the local body elections on seats reserved for OBCs, which has created turmoil in Maharashtra politics and political parties are trying to make up for the loss caused to them by this decision. Huh.
Vadettiwar, Minister of Disaster Management and OBC Welfare, Relief and Rehabilitation in the Maharashtra government, told PTI, “Many leaders of the OBC community have approached me to lead a separate front, so that the matters of those backward classes.” to effectively take up those who have not got their due place in the society.
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Former Congress Legislature Party leader Wadettiwar had planned to hold a meeting of the proposed front on Wednesday in Mumbai after the show of strength in Aurangabad, but both the programs were postponed due to the resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the state. . He said there was a plan to invite Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to the Aurangabad rally.
Sources close to the minister said the Congress ranks fourth in the state in terms of support for the Maratha community, which has dominated Maharashtra politics since the state’s formation in 1960. At present, the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is believed to have the maximum support of the Maratha community. Marathas constitute 32 percent of the state’s population. In terms of support for the Maratha community, the NCP is second only to the Shiv Sena and then to the Bharatiya Janata Party. (agency)