Padalkar attacks MVA govt over OBC reservation

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Targets Ajit Pawar and Awhad for false statements

Mumbai: Attacking Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government over the OBC reservation issue, BJP leader Gopichand Padalkar challenged to field all OBC candidates for the local body polls. He even ridiculed the MVA leadership questioning their sudden love towards the community.

“The government of established leaders once used OBCs as foot soldiers, and now suddenly trying to show its love for the community. This is ridiculous and false. This government put in efforts only asking dates in the court on the reservation issue till the judiciary cancelled it. Now, the court decision has shaken them,” the BJP leader said.

Hitting at the government, Padalkar said they are just clueless about what is happening post the court’s decision cancelling the OBC reservation.

“The government has no idea about what the backward class commission is doing if a sub-committee of OBC ministers appointed functioning or not, whether empirical data is being collected? All these questions are unanswered. However, the ministers are busy making false promises about the reservation,” alleged Padalkar.

Padalkar criticised MVA Minister Jitendra Awhad for saying he did not believe in OBCs because they did not fight when the Mandal Commission came. “It is not known which history Awhad has studied but this established leadership had opposed the Mandal Commission then. I think he is just like a ‘contract worker’ to please the established leaders by making such statements. But in reality, these established leaders had expressed huge displeasure over reservation to the deprived. Hundreds of OBCs had set themselves on fire. Don’t you know this history of OBC?” the MLC asked.

The BJP leader also targeted deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar who has said that there won’t be elections till the empirical data is collected and if needed an administrator would be appointed. “It is a tradition to appoint the administrator of own choice and taking undue advantage from the local bodies,” he said.

Padalkar challenged the government, “If you love OBCs then BJP would field OBCs in all the constituencies and you ensure to elect them all else you announce to field OBC candidates in all the constituencies,” he said.