Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Friday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, accusing it of lacking the political will to grant Maratha reservation.

In a press conference at Tilak Bhavan in Mumbai, Sapkal said, “Granting Maratha reservation requires political will, and the BJP and Devendra Fadnavis do not have it. This is not a new demand; it has been pending for years. The reservation was lost in the Supreme Court because the BJP and the Fadnavis government failed to submit empirical data. What happened to Devendra Fadnavis’ claim that he would grant Maratha quota within seven days if given power?”

He alleged that the BJP government was trying to create divisions between the Maratha and the Other Backward Communities (OBC) communities in the name of reservation.