Bhujbal should resign before making such remarks, says Vikhe Patil

In the wake of Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbals demand to disband the Justice Sandeep Shinde retired committee on the Maratha quota issue his cabinet colleague Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Wednesday said the NCP leader should resign as a minister before making such statementsHe advised Bhujbal to exercise patience as his stand sends out a message that there was no uniformity in the state government over the Maratha reservation issueBhujbal on Monday demanded a stay on Kunbi caste certificates issued to Marathas and disbanding of the panel saying it has done its job of identifying records in the Marathwada regionBhujbal is leader of the Nationalist Congress Party NCP led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar He is Food and Civil Supplies MinisterSpeaking to reporters in Kolhapur BJP leader and Revenue Minister Vikhe Patil said Bhujbal is a senior leader and he should be patientThe state government has already clarified its stand on the agitation by Manoj Jarange on the issue of Maratha reservation The state government has made it clear that without touching any other communitys reservation the Maratha community will be given quota Vikhe Patil saidHowever an agitation in the name of OBCs led by Bhujbal is unwarrantedHad the government taken the decision to give Marathas reservation under the OBC category I would have understood his stand on his agitation The OBC vs Maratha dispute is absurd Bhujbal is a senior leader and he should be patient Today people talk respectfully about him but if it continues a demand seeking action against him will have to be made he saidWhen asked about Bhujbals demand for scrapping of the Shinde committee he said Bhujbal should first resign from the cabinet and then make such a statementSuch a stand raises questions over the credibility of the state governments honest efforts as it sends a message among masses that there is no uniformity in the stand of the government So either he should resign or the CM and government should think of taking some different stand on him he saidBhujbal is a senior leader and such things are not expected from him Vikhe Patil saidMaratha community is seeking quota in education and jobs and what is wrong in that demand but the OBC issue is being raised unnecessarily The real question is whether Bhujbal genuinely wants to safeguard the OBC reservation or he just wants to do his own rehabilitation he saidAs the agitation for the Maratha reservation led by activist Manoj Jarange was on the state government set up the fivemember panel headed by Justice Shinde retired to decide the Standard Operating Procedure SOP for giving Kunbi certificates to members of the Maratha community who or whose ancestors were referred to as Kunbis in the Nizamera documentsKunbis the community associated with agriculture are grouped under the Other Backward Classes OBC category in MaharashtraThe state government on October 31 published an order asking officials concerned to issue fresh Kunbi caste certificates to eligible Maratha community members paving the way for them to avail reservation benefits under the OBC categoryBhujbal an OBC leader himself has said the existing reservation for the OBCs should not be curtailed while giving reservation to MarathasThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever