Beed: Maharashtra Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde on Thursday stressed that the existing reservation benefits of socially backward OBC communities should not be disturbed while extending benefits to the Maratha community.

“The groups that were identified and given reservation benefits on the basis of social backwardness remain backward even today. Their quota cannot be touched while extending similar benefits to the Maratha community,” the BJP leader said in her speech at the Dussehra rally in Bhagwan Bhakti Gad.

Affirming the Mahayuti government’s commitment to OBC interests, she noted Maharashtra’s 350+ OBC castes must not be sidelined in the Maratha quota debate.

“The CM has always protected OBC rights; we won’t allow dilution of the 27 per cent quota,” she sai

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