He says SC’s scrapping of the Maratha quota law would severely impact poorer sections of the community
While stating that the Supreme Court’s scrapping of the Maratha quota law would severely impact the poorer sections of the community, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) leader Prakash Ambedkar nevertheless said that they were to “blame” for having failed to carve out a political identity for themselves.
Mr. Ambedkar, the grandson of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, said that while no OBCs (Other Backward Class) or SCs (Scheduled Caste) had ever been against poorer sections of the Maratha community, it had always been rich Marathas against their poorer brethren.
“While it is unfortunate that the Maratha quota law has been repealed by the Supreme Court, which also rejected the Gaikwad Commission’s report, the poorer sections of the Maratha community are to blame for getting things to such a pass. They have not tried to create an independent identity for themselves and have kowtowed to…