Summary:
Aurangabad, Oct 12 (PTI) Senior BJP leaders including Union Minister Bhagwat Karad, former Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde and the party"s OBC Cell chief Yogesh Tilekar on Tuesday took part in a rally organised here by the OBC Janjagran Abhiyan.
Munde said the state government must learn from other states and ensure OBCs get justice by way of quota, but added that decisions were not being taken despite Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray having the power to do so.
Recent local bodies polls were held without OBC quota, but future polls will have to be conducted with quota for the Other Backward Classes or else candidates from these categories might win, but they may not reach the top post of local bodies, Munde, the BJP"s national secretary, asserted.
"When we talk of OBC reservation, others start talking about Maratha quota.
The Maratha community is demanding quota in education and jobs and the OBCs need political reservations.
The Maharashtra government should study from 22 other states that have given quota to OBCs," the former MLA said.