India, Sept. 22 -- After Dhananjay Munde, another NCP MLA and former minister, Prakash Solanke, wrote to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis urging him towards the reservation demands of the Dhangar community. Dhangars are backward and have been persistently making the same demand for the last seven years, this is their right, Solanke said in his letter.

The one-page letter was sent to CM Fadnavis on Saturday. A copy of the letter is with the Hindustan Times.

The development comes against the backdrop of the Dhangar community reviving their long-pending demand to get the status of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category. The call for reservations soon after the state government accepted the Hyderabad Gazette as a valid document to prove the cre...