Remarking that the Maratha community had never discriminated against anyone on the basis of caste or community, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Monday said that some leaders whom the community had helped make big were now denying the Marathas their just quota.
Addressing a massive rally in Pune’s Kharadi area, Mr. Jarange-Patil, who has emerged as the most prominent face of the renewed Maratha reservation agitation, warned that the community would strike down those who dared to speak out against Maratha reservation.
Without taking his name, the activist once again targeted other backward class (OBC) leader Chhagan Bhujbal - a senior leader of the ruling Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) faction – by stating the latter ought not to speak anything merely because he was getting on in his years.
