"BJP Should Apologize": Supriya Sule On Maratha Quota Protest Violence

Criticizing the BJP government over police lathi charge on the protesting people for the demand of the Maratha reservation, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) leader Supriya Sule on Friday said that BJP government has cruelly cheated the society and they should apologize to the Maratha community for this.

Taking to her X (earlier known as Twitter), she wrote "The police lathi-charged the protestors who were agitating for the demand of Maratha reservation. This is very outrageous."

मराठा आरक्षणाच्या मागणीसाठी आंदोलन करणाऱ्या आंदोलकांवर पोलीसांनी लाठीचार्ज केला.‌ हे अतिशय संतापजनक आहे. मराठा समाजाला आरक्षण देण्याच्या भुलथापा देऊन भाजपाने मते घेतली परंतु आरक्षणाच्या बाबतीत मराठा समाजाला केवळ आश्वासने देण्यापलीकडे भाजपाने काहीही केले नाही, ही वस्तुस्थिती आहे.… pic.twitter.com/Bq6SqqZJFJ

— Supriya Sule (@supriya_sule) September 1, 2023

"The fact is that the BJP won votes by giving the illusion of giving reservation to the Maratha community, but the fact is that the BJP has not done anything except giving promises to the Maratha community in the matter of reservation," added the NCP leader.

"Our position is clear on giving reservations to Maratha, Dhangar, Lingayat and Muslim community. But the BJP has consistently taken a stand to increase confusion in this regard. It is a matter of regret that reservation is not given in spite of the government of the same party and ideas in the center and the state," she further added in her tweet.

Supriya Sule further said in her tweet that the BJP government has cruelly cheated the society by attacking the agitators of the Maratha community. BJP should apologize to the Maratha community for this.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)