A strange statement coming from one of the NCP MLAs from Maharashtra, claiming that he has been ignored for a ministerial berth in the state government as he belongs to the Maratha community, has created outrage in the cabinet. 

NCP MLA Prakash Solanke, while speaking to reporters in Beed on Sunday, also claimed Marathas have been the Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) strength in Beed district, but they are ignored when it comes to giving a cabinet or guardian minister post to a member from the community.

As reported by news agency PTI, the four-time MLA from Majalgaon was responding to a question on Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP head Ajit Pawar on Friday, saying party leader and former minister Dhananjay Munde will be given an "opportunity" if he is absolved in an "inquiry" against him.
Ajit Pawar was apparently referring to last year's Beed sarpanch murder case, following which Munde, the MLA from Parli in Beed, had to quit the Devendra Fadnavis government in March this year.