“This is a failure of Mahavikas Aaghadi. Delay in tactics applied by State Government led to the judgment. The court has not canceled the new act, but has used terse words against the working style of State Government. OBC community has to suffer a lot because of State Government’s careless approach as MVA has never put the side of the community in a right way,” said Fadnavis.

On elections, Fadnavis said, BJP’s preparedness is always high as it does not work keeping eye on polls. BJP keeps doing work everyday, pointed out Fadnavis.

Fadnavis has convened a meeting of top leaders of BJP in Nagpur including MLAs, MLCs to decide the patry’s strategy. Vikas Thakre, President of Nagpur City Congress, said, “We respect the Court’s decision and we have already started our preparations to face the polls. BJP has exposed itself by not doing anything in last 15 years. Public will ask BJP what had it done to this city. We are trying to find the areas we fell short in last elections. We are working on our weakness and building our strengths.” In the wake of Supreme Court decision, Duneshwar Pethe, President of NCP city unit, convened a meeting of all heads of the party of six Assembly constituencies. Some Zonal heads, too, were invited. Pethe interacted with them to chalk out the plan for the civic body polls.

“I have asked all the zonal presidents to get the list of people interested to contest corporation polls. As per the instructions from our senior leaders we are preparing to win more number of seats. The system of three Prabhags has almost finalised which is acceptable to us,” explained Pethe.

Most leaders were not aware of the Supreme Court judgement as its details were not uploaded till early evening.

Dushyant Chaturvedi, Contact chief of Shiv Sena in Nagpur, told ‘The Hitavada’, “Our leaders are monitoring the situation. Sanjay Raut had been to Nagpur. Accordingly, we have started our preparations to face the polls. Early polls are always good and we have no issue with regards to prabhag system too.”

Welcoming the verdict of Supreme Court, Bawankule, too, slammed State Government for betraying OBC community. “Lawyers of State Government could not put the side of OBC, the way they should have been. On December 13, 2019 Supreme Court had asked Government to hold triple test of the OBC report. But MVA has not taken it seriously. Supreme Court had again given reminder to State Government on March 4, 2021, but Government completely ignored it. Had the Government conducted triple test of the report, injustice would not have made on the OBC community,” alleged Bawankule.

Alleging its failure to provide justice to OBC, Khopde also flayed the State Government. “Government has committed a sin of depriving the OBC people from acquiring the political post. BJP also is not ready to go to polls without OBC. State Government ignorant approach has made injustice on 52% OBC, criticised Khopde.

Pravin Datke, BJP city President, said, “The party is all set for polls. We are running various schemes through which we have established the required connect with the people so polls are the formality. People, too, are aware, who is active and who is not.”