Their last minute announcement of reservations for minority groups was slammed by their detractor as votebank politics and now NCP chief has openly admitted that the move was timed to polls. In a statement of unabashed political opportunism, Sharad Pawar has expressed that the ruling combine is hoping to reap electoral benfits from their announcemrnt. Meanwhile, a PIL was filed in the Bombay HC against the Maratha reservation. According to the PIL the community has fraudulently been represented as socially and educationally backward and the said reservation should be aborted.
