Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday sought to know what "miracle" happened in the last four days that the Supreme Court allowed the Madhya Pradesh government to hold local bodies elections with reservation for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

Speaking to reporters, Patole claimed that while Maharashtra has been fighting to restore political reservation of OBCs for the last two years, the Central government has been constantly creating obstructions and has refused to provide the empirical data required for reservation.