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Govt has done a lot for Marathas, says Sreejaya

Sreejaya

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Sreejaya, daughter of BJP MP Ashok Chavan and party’s nominee from Maharashtra’s Bhokar assembly seat, has said the opposition’s “false propaganda” will not work this time and asserted the government has done a lot to address issued faced by Marathas.


Sreejaya Chavan, who was earlier in the Congress and shifted her political loyalty to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when her father, a former CM, joined the saffron outfit in February this year, was among 99 candidates named by the party in its first list for the November 20 state assembly polls.


A law degree holder, Sreejaya is making her electoral debut from the home turf of Bhokar in Nanded district.a


In an interview with PTI, she said her campaign team is cautioning voters about the “false propaganda” spread by the opposition during the recent Lok Sabha elections, which saw the BJP putting up an underwhelming performance and winning just nine seats in Maharashtra.


The ruling Mahayuti has done a lot to address the issues faced by the Maratha community, which is agitating for reservation in jobs and education, she noted.


She also touched upon the emotive issue of Maratha reservation which is widely believed to have contributed in the BJP’s poor showing in the Lok Sabha polls, especially in Marathwada, the ground zero of the quota stir spearheaded by Manoj Jarange-Patil.


“We are telling people in villages about the false propaganda unleased by the opposition during the Lok Sabha polls. So many issues were raised against certain sections of society. People are intelligent enough, and they understand these propagandas will not work anymore,” she said when asked about campaign issues and what her team is doing to avoid a repeat of loss in the Lok Sabha polls.


“The Mahayuti government has given a 10 per cent reservation to the Maratha community (in government jobs and education). Many youths from Bhokar have already benefitted with provisions made for Socially and Economically Backward Classes (SEBC) by the government,” Sreejaya Chavan insisted.


She dwelt on her political journey from the Congress to the BJP and her new role as the saffron party’s candidate from Bhokar.


“Our family has been working for long for the people in the constituency. After the switch over, ideological and thought process may differ a little bit, but we have always given preference to the people in our constituency. I am giving time to address demands of people in both rural and urban areas,” she maintained.

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