Violent demonstration regarding Maratha reservation.
Violent demonstration regarding Maratha reservation.
Maratha Agitation: The movement that started in Maharashtra demanding Maratha reservation has turned violent. It has spread to 8 districts of the Marathwada region of the state. Apart from these, demonstrations are also being held in Pune and Ahmednagar. There is also a long traffic jam on the Pune-Bangalore highway. Besides, many incidents of arson have also come to light. At the same time, CM Shinde has held an urgent cabinet meeting to find a solution to pacify the ongoing protests against the state government over Maratha reservation.
CM Shinde took three important decisions in the cabinet
Shinde government has taken three important decisions in the cabinet meeting, in which the first report of Justice Sandeep Shinde has been approved. In this, the documents of Maratha Kunbi and Kunbi Maratha during the Nizam period of Marathwada were examined. The Backward Classes Commission will now examine the educational and social backwardness of the Maratha community and collect new data. A three-member committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Justice Dilip Bhosale. This committee will give legal advice to the government for giving Maratha reservation.
Violent demonstration
After Beed and Majalgaon, the Panchayat body office of Jalna has been handed over today. Before this, there was also arson in Turori village near Umarga town late on Monday night. Protestors had set fire to a Karnataka depot bus in Turori. Besides, after Beed city which was most affected by this movement, the administration has become quite alert in Osmanabad also. He has banned internet in Beed. At the same time, in Jalna city also, three people had tried to commit suicide in the last 12 hours. Here too protests have been going on for the last 13 days.
55 people arrested so far
Beed SP Nandkumar Thakur said the situation during the ongoing Maratha quota agitation in Maharashtra’s Beed district has been brought under control and 55 people have been arrested in connection with the recent incidents of violence and arson. With the change, police have also stepped up security and increased patrolling at the residential and official premises of prominent political leaders.
Manoj Jarange toughened his stance
Amid these protests, activist Manoj Jarange, who is leading the Maratha protest, said that the Maratha community will not accept incomplete reservation and the Maharashtra government should call a special session of the state legislature on the issue. According to media reports, he said that I have spoken to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. I have once again made my stand clear that incomplete reservation for Marathas is not acceptable. The government should announce reservation for Marathas in the entire state. We entire Maratha state are brothers and have blood relation.
What did Manoj Jarange say on the violent protest?
Amid incidents of violence over the demand for reservation in some parts of the state, he claimed that Maratha workers are agitating peacefully. He said that as the Maratha community wanted, I have started drinking water. He further said that our two programmes, the hunger strike and the ban on entry of political leaders into villages, should continue. Public representatives like MLAs and MPs should form a group and secure reservation for the Maratha community. He also said that the agitators should not think of calling a bandh at the moment and the government should continue public transport services.
due to movement
Marathas have been demanding reservation in Maharashtra for the last 4 decades. The state government had given 16 percent reservation to Marathas under OBC in 2018. Due to this, the total reservation in the state crossed the limit of 50 percent. The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court had canceled the Maratha reservation in May 2021. After this, Maratha leaders demanded that Kunbi caste certificates be given to their community. The present government has decided to give Kunbi certificate to some people of Maratha community.
