MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday promised the Dhangar community that his government will ensure that they will get reservations as promised by the BJP before the Maharashtra assembly polls.“We have got lots of love, blessings and support from the Dhangar community, this is the reason we had a change in Maharashtra. The community has been facing many problems, they must get their rights. We won’t back down from the promise made before the elections and we will fulfill it,” Fadnavis said in Nagpur.Adding that there is a lot of ‘social unrest’ among the community over the issue, the CM said, “We will call a meeting of the attorney general within 15 days, where senior leaders of the community would also be present and a solution would be found.”Aware of the fact that the Adivasi community has been opposing the inclusion of Dhangars in the scheduled tribes as it could bring down their reservations, Fadnavis said that the Dhangars would be given reservation in such a manner that it would not hurt the Adivasi community’s interests.The CM’s assurance to the Adivasi community is significant as many Adivasi leaders in the NCP had pressured the leadership in the run up to the assembly polls not to succumb to the Dhangar demand. This was because the NCP had become nervous after the Lok Sabha polls when Dhangar community leader Mahadeo Jankar lost to Supriya Sule by just 69,000 votes in Baramati, which is known to be the stronghold of Pawar’s.The Dhangar population in the state is more than 1.5 crore and they are concentrated in the Western Maharashtra and Marathwada region.According to Dhangar leaders, they have been denied reservations because of a ‘spelling mistake’. The Presidential order of 1956 spelled the community’s name as ‘Dhangad’ which led to the community being denied reservations.