Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nov 7: Expressing that the Maratha community should be given reservation under a separate category, OBC leader and state minister Chhagan Bhujbal said on Monday that if OBC quota was disturbed for giving reservation to the Marathas, then the government will collapse.
If the state government decides to give reservation to Marathas as Kunbis, then it will be a big blow to 375 castes of the Bahujan community, he said while addressing a press conference here this evening after visiting parts of Beed district where arson took place during the Maratha agitation.
He warned that the government will go if it touches the reservation of OBCs.
In Beed and Majalgaon, protesters burnt down the houses of the people’s representatives for the Maratha reservation, he claimed.
He alleged that a mob of about 700-800 people armed with axes, iron guards and petrol bombs targeted Bahujan Samaj leaders and set fire to their houses.
The minister further alleged that a mob of about 400-500 people burnt down the hotel of Subhash Raut, an activist of Samata Parishad.
They were looking for Raut, he claimed and alleged that if they had found him, they would have killed him.
They also ransacked Sandeep Kshirsagar and Jaydutt Kshirsagar’s houses, Bhujbal claimed and charged that this was a premeditated attack on the OBC community.
He demanded that the caste-wise census be conducted in the state, he added.
