India, Oct. 27 -- While protests against the September 2 Government Resolution (GR)-which enables Marathas to get Kunbi certificates, paving the way for their inclusion in the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) category-are rising, experts and some OBC leaders have pointed out that the government had allowed people with Kunbi lineage to be included in the OBC category by issuing a GR as far back as June 2004, and the fresh GR is no different from it. Although food and civil supplies minister and OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal has been leading the front, demanding that the September 2 GR be scrapped, the experts point out that the 2004 GR was issued when Bhujbal was deputy chief minister of the state.

Bhujbal and other OBC leaders, in their rally ...