kapil Patil said the Constitution has nowhere added the cap of 50% on reservation but it is by the Supreme Court. “The same Supreme Court has accepted reservation for economically weaker section which is going beyond 50%,” said Patil.
His finest hour was the accession of over 550 scattered principalities, but he was also a lieutenant to Mahatma Gandhi, best able to reconcile the impracticalities of Gandhian philosophy with the realities of local politics.