NAGPUR, Oct. 11 -- Thousands of people from the Other Backward Classes (OBC) community participated in a rally in Nagpur on Friday, demanding the immediate withdrawal of the September 2 Government Resolution (GR) granting Kunbi status to eligible Marathas. The protesters warned that if the GR is not scrapped soon, the OBC community would choke the roads of cities like Mumbai, Pune, and Thane. The protest march, organised under the banner of the Sakal OBC Maha Morcha, began at Yeshwant Stadium and culminated in a large gathering three kilometres away at Samvidhan Square in Nagpur's busy Civil Lines area. Thousands of participants, holding placards and chanting slogans, opposed the GR, which allows Marathas who can prove their Kunbi lineage to claim OBC status. They argued that issuing Kunbi caste certificates to eligible Marathas would unfairly dilute the existing OBC reservation benefits. Addressing the gathering, Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar accused the Devendra Fadnavis government of succumbing to pressure from Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil. "The government issued this GR to finish the OBCs in Maharashtra," he alleged. "When Jarange-Patil could choke the traffic of Mumbai demanding inclusion of Marathas into Kunbis, we will jam the whole of Mumbai, along with Pune and Thane, to show our strength," he added. The protest march saw participation from prominent community leaders, including Wadettiwar, former home minister Anil Deshmukh, ex-minister Sunil Kedar, Chandrapur MP Pratibha Dhanorkar, and activists Laxman Hake and Mahadev Jankar. Interestingly, not a single legislator or representative from the ruling parties-BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP-attended the rally. The absence of prominent pro-OBC leaders such as Chhagan Bhujbal, Dhananjay Munde, and OBC Mahasangh president Babanrao Tayawade was noted....