Maratha community to get reservation in Maharashtra

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The Maratha community is the economically and politically dominant community in Maharashtra . With it getting reservations , it seems anybody with sufficient political clout can get reservations regardless of whether it is a truly deserving community or not 

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-maharashtra-government-may-provide-20-reservation-to-maratha-community-after-june-20-1995294

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The Maratha community is the economically and politically dominant community in Maharashtra . With it getting reservations , it seems anybody with sufficient political clout can get reservations regardless of whether it is a truly deserving community or not 

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-maharashtra-government-may-provide-20-reservation-to-maratha-community-after-june-20-1995294

This is an election gimmick. Why AFTER June 20? The message is "if you ALL vote for us, we will (consider) giving you reservation"

As usual, Cong(i) will do anything - including destroying unity, community, culture, and the nation - to get power.

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Here is a description of the maratha race in comparison with rajputs ( written by Elphinstone in the 19th century ) ---

Though the Marathas had never appeared in history as a nation,
they had as strongly marked a character as if they had always formed
a united commonwealth. Though more like to the lower orders in
Hindostan than to their southern neighbours in Kanaru and Telingana,
they could never for a moment be confounded with either. They are
small sturdy men, well made, though not handsome. They are all active,
laborious, hardy, and persevering. If they have none of the pride and
dignity of the Rajputs, they have none of their indolence or want of
worldly wisdom. A Rajput warrior, as long as he does not dishonour
his race, seems almost indifferent to the result of any contest he is
engaged in. A Maratha thinks of nothing but the result, and cares little
for the means, if he can attain his object. For this purpose he will strain
his wits, renounce his pleasures, and hazard his person ; but he has not
a conception of sacrificing his life, or even his interest, for a point of honour.
This difference of sentiment affects the outward appearance of the two
nations ; there is something noble in the carriage even of an ordinary
Rajput, and something vulgar in that of the most distinguished Maratha.!!!

The Rajput is the most worthy antagonist — the Maratha the most
formidable enemy ; for he will not fail in boldness and enterprise when
they are indispensable, and will always support them, or supply their
place, by stratagem, activity, and perseverance. All this applies chiefly
to the soldiery, to whom more bad qualities might fairly be ascribed.
The mere husbandmen are sober, frugal, and industrious, and, though they
have a dash of the national cunning, are neither turbulent nor insincere.

The chiefs, in those days, were men of families who had for generations 
filled the old Hindu offices of heads of villages or functionaries of districts, 
and had often been employed as partisans under the governments of 
Ahmadnagar and Bijapur. They were all Sudras, of the same cast with 
their people, though some tried to raise their consequence by claiming 
an infusion of Rajput blood.

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