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Last Updated: November 01, 2023, 11:26 IST
Two youths reportedly climbed a 300-feet mobile tower in Dharashiv. Police is on the spot, requesting them to come down.
Maratha Quota Stir Updates: Maratha quota agitators vandalised Maharashtra cabinet minister Hasan Mushrif’s SUV parked in south Mumbai on Wednesday morning.
You have Tuesday night and Wednesday, after that I will stop taking water, Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange-Patil said in his ultimatum to Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde.
Shinde reached out to Patil over the phone and held discussions for around 30 minutes. However, Patil refused to back down.
“We do not want half reservation. We want a full reservation that stands the scrutiny of the court. For this, call a special session of the Maharashtra legislature, and it is time you do the needful. I am ready to die fighting for the cause,” he said, adding that the government will be responsible for the outcome if the quota is not given.
Patil’s threat comes a day after the Maharashtra revenue department began issuing Kunbi certificates to the Maratha community members with valid documents.
The violent reservation protests have forced the Shinde government to issue certificates to the descendants of those recorded as part of the Kunbi sub-caste during the pre-independence Nizam era to enable them to get quota under the Other Backward Class (OBC) category as part of interim measures.
Maratha Quota Protest: Top Points
• Two youths reportedly climbed a 300-feet mobile tower in Dharashiv, and are refusing to come down till they get reservation. Police is on the spot, requesting them to come down.
• Maratha quota agitators vandalised Maharashtra cabinet minister Hasan Mushrif’s SUV parked in south Mumbai on Wednesday morning, police said. Three persons were detained by the Marine Drive police in this connection, an official said.
• CM Shinde has called an all-party meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the state amid the intensified Maratha quota agitation which took a violent turn in some parts of the state, but Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray has not been invited for the meet. READ MORE
• On Tuesday, services of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses were stopped completely in five districts of Marathwada in central Maharashtra amid the violence. Bus services in Parbhani, Dharashiv, Latur, Jalna and Nanded districts have been suspended completely for the last three-four days while they have been hit to some extent in Beed, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Solapur districts, said the official of the state-owned corporation.
• Pro-Maratha reservation protestors on Tuesday burnt tyres on the Pune-Bengaluru highway near Navale bridge in Maharashtra’s Pune. The visuals showed a large number of people burning tyres, shouting slogans and disrupting the traffic.
#WATCH | Pro-Maratha reservation protestors burn tyres on Pune-Bengaluru highway near Navale bridge in Maharashtra’s Pune city. The movement of vehicles is affected near the site of the protest. pic.twitter.com/4OGsSGcRhe— ANI (@ANI) October 31, 2023
• A curfew was imposed in Maharashtra’s Beed and Dharashiv after violence by the Maratha quota agitators.
• Maharashtra’s Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Sanjay Saxena has visited Beed district to take stock of the situation after large scale violence there during the Maratha quota agitation, an official said on Wednesday. So far, 99 people have been arrested in connection with the violence in Beed and the situation is currently under control, he said.
• Curfew was imposed and Internet services were suspended in central Maharashtra’s Beed district after the violence on Monday. The residence of Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar group) MLA Prakash Solanke at Majalgaon town in Beed was set on fire and stones were hurled at it by a group of quota agitators on Monday morning.
• The group also set ablaze a car parked at the residence after an audio clip of the MLA, in which he purportedly spoke about the Maratha quota agitation and made a veiled comment on quota activist Manoj Jarange who is on an indefinite fast, went viral. Later, the protesters set ablaze the first floor of the Majalgaon Municipal Council building.
• Another group of protesters barged into the residential premises and office of NCP MLA Sandeep Kshirsagar in Beed city and set them on fire on Monday evening. The residence of former Maharashtra minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar in the city was also torched.
• Police fired tear gas shells to disperse a mob that had gathered outside the residence of NCP leader Amarsingh Pandit.
• The Kalyana Karnataka Road Transport Corporation has decided to suspend the bus services between two states till the situation normalises.