Brutal fights eject in Maharashtra over Maratha quota, prompting suspension of transport administrations, time limit, and web shutdown in affected areas.
Maratha quota protests took a rough turn in certain pieces of Maharashtra after the state saw episodes of violence. The state-run transport administrations have been suspended in five Marathwada areas while time limit and web shut-down have been forced in pieces of Beed where the places of political pioneers were targeted by dissenters.
Pro-Maratha reservation protestors burn tires on the Pune-Bengaluru thruway close to Navale bridge on Wednesday. Police have booked roughly 400-500 individuals.
Here is a 10-point guide on the Maratha quota:
- Internet providers have been suspended in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar locale – both rural and metropolitan regions – of Maharashtra on Thursday, November 2.
- The choice to suspend the internet providers in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar locale was taken after occurrences of illegal conflagration and revolting. Protests and arson were additionally reported in different areas of Maharashtra on Wednesday.
- Individuals from Maratha Kranti Morcha (MKM), attorneys, and farmers having a place with the Maratha community group fought in Latur city, guaranteeing that Marathas are Kunbis according to the records tracing back to the pre-Freedom time frame and the Nizam period, which makes them qualified to get the reservation under the OBC class.
- The protesters on Thursday blackened banners of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Bhiwandi.
- Police have moved forward security outside the private home of the central chief minister in the Loiuswadi area in Thane city due to the fights by Maratha community group individuals for quota in different pieces of the state.
Shinde’s child and Kalyan MP Shrikant Shinde has kept in touch with the Thane police commissioner objecting to the “one-sided” choice by the police to redirect traffic in their local location, a move he said has attracted analysis to the Shinde family.- Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil on November 1 said he would keep on leftover quickly till booking for the whole Maratha community is authoritatively reported.
- All political groups stand with the state government on giving Maratha reservation, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde reported after an all-party meeting was held in Mumbai on Wednesday.
- A Maratha community body in Nashik on Monday chose not to observe Diwali and other impending celebrations till they get the reservation under the OBC class in Maharashtra.
- Maharashtra Police has enlisted 141 cases regarding the violence during the Maratha standard fomentations and captured 168 people, state Chief General of Police Rajnish Seth said on Wednesday.
