The BJP leader was talking to reporters after attending an all-party meeting called by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on the issue.
The Supreme Court earlier this year struck down the reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies in Maharashtra, saying the total reservation should not exceed 50 per cent.
The State Backward Classes Commission should put together the empirical data about OBCs in the next three or four months. Till then, there should be no local governing body elections. Fadnavis said that all the parties have agreed to this.
“Even after the data is collected and OBC reservation is restored, there will be an issue in the three districts for which a separate policy decision should be taken,” the former chief minister said.
“If no decision is taken, there will be no reserved OBC constituencies in these three districts,” he said.
When asked about the demand of Rs 437 crore by the Backward Classes Commission, the BJP leader said that the commission does not need such a huge amount immediately. “Whatever they want now, it should be given by the state government.”
“Amazingly, what I am telling the state government is no different from what the Supreme Court had asked it to do. There has been a huge delay in restoring the OBC quota,” claimed Fadnavis.
On Congress MLA Naseem Khan’s demand to include OBC quota for those who migrated to Maharashtra decades ago, he said, “Once the community from which such people come is included in the state OBC list, then the quota can be given. “
Another BJP leader Chandrashekhar Bawankule alleged that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government was dragging its feet on the issue of restoration of OBC quota as a strong lobby within the government was against it.
“Those who played a key role in the formation of this government are now trying to delay the process. They want to keep the local governing bodies under their control, the former minister alleged and took a call on the issue,” he said. Warned of agitation.”
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