 Chief Minister Manohar Joshi was quoted as saying ""Any one of them going and talking to the protesters could have averted the tragedy"".After coming to power, the Bhartiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena-led government had announced a Special Backward Caste (SBC) category for 47 such communities with 2 percent reservations in education and government jobs.However, the Supreme Court of India ruling that reservation quotas cannot exceed 50 percent has created legal problems for SBC quotas.