Maharashtra Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Girish Mahajan has said it was impossible to give blanket reservation to all Marathas, prompting a verbal backlash from activist Manoj Jarange Patil on Monday.
Mr. Jarange Patil, who is currently on a tour of north Maharashtra, threatened to make viral the clip where Mahajan (who had met the pro-quota activist during his first hunger strike) had purportedly made the promise that reservation would be given to all members of the Maratha community.
Mr. Mahajan, a five-term legislator from Jamner in Jalgaon district and the State’s Rural Development, said he had already told the activist before that a blanket reservation was not viable.
