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Mumbai: The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra governments exercise to grant Kunbi caste certificates to eligible persons from the Maratha community has sparked a rift within the ruling parties in the state as well as between the Marathas and the Other Backward Classes (OBCs)...
Chhagan Bhujbal, a minister in the Shinde cabinet from the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Mondayraised concerns about backdoor entry for Marathas to get reservations under the OBC quota, and said that he opposed any such attempts by the government...
Speaking in the Marathwada regions Jalna district Monday, Bhujbal, a leader from the OBC community, said the government had initially decided to grant Kunbi status to Marathas in the region with Nizam-era documents showing them to be Kunbis...
The minister said the procedure to grant Kunbi caste certificates to eligible members of the Maratha community was also ascertained in a cabinet meeting attended by Bhujbal, according to the recommendations of the Shinde committee, headed by retired justice Sandeep Shinde...
Leaders of the OBC community met Bhujbal at his official residence in Mumbai Tuesday and urged him not to resign from the cabinet despite his differences with the government on the issue of Kunbi certificates to eligible Marathas across the state...
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