'Protest by Maratha community reflecting past govts failures'

The protest marches taken out by the Maratha community are only reflecting the failures of the previous governments which ruled Maharashtra for 15 years, state Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said today.
The Finance Minister however appreciated the fact that the protest marches are going on peacefully.
"There are no leaders to lead the 'morchas' (protest march) taken out at various places across Maharashtra and their anger is mainly against the total failures of successive governments in the past which neglected them," Mungantiwar said on the sidelines of a function here, without naming the Congress-NCP.
It was the Congress-NCP government which ruled Maharashtra between 1999-2014.

He said on certain demands of the Maratha community, the state government was seized of the issues and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has already made a statement in this regard.
Meanwhile, about the state's finances, Mungantiwar said, "our agriculture growth rate was 5.8 per cent and was much improved.