Meanwhile, for a change, the Shinde-Fadnavis government and opposition NCP and Congress are on the same page when it comes to holding local body elections with OBC quota.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar has demanded a caste-based national census to determine quotas for various groups and ensure social equality, here on Wednesday."Nobody is asking anything for free, but everybody .
Sharad Pawar pointed out that the SC/ST had got the benefit of the reservations granted to them by the Constitution and similar concessions must be extended even to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).
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