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  • ‘Nashik bandh’ name by Maratha outfits in opposition to police lathi-charge in Jalna will get blended response 

    By PTI

    NASHIK: The ‘bandh’ name given by some Maratha organisations in Nashik district of Maharashtra to protest in opposition to the current police lathi-charge on the agitators demanding quota for the group in Jalna, evoked a blended response on Sunday.

    The bandh name was given by ‘Sakal Maratha Samaj’ and ‘Maratha Kranti Morcha’.

    On Friday, an agitation searching for reservation for the Maratha group turned violent at Antarwali Sarathi village in Jalna district, resulting in a number of folks, together with dozens of police personnel, getting injured.

    Police resorted to lathi-charge and lobbed tear fuel shells to disperse a violent mob that allegedly refused to let authorities shift a person on a starvation strike as a part of the quota stir to the hospital.

    The Maratha Kranti Morcha and different organisations took out a protest march in Nashik metropolis this morning.

    It started from the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and moved by means of a number of areas equivalent to Ravivar Karanja and Main Road.

    READ HERE: Day after Maratha quota stir turns violent, Opposition seeks Fadanavis scalp in Maharashtra

    They appealed to shopkeepers to maintain the retailers and enterprise institutions shut.

    In response, the retailers have been closed in some components of town for a while and have been opened within the afternoon.

    Bus and different mandatory providers weren’t affected.

    But buses are usually not being operated to Jalna and Ahmednagar by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC).

    VIDEO | Aurangabad Range Special IG Dnyaneshwar Chavan met these injured within the police lathi-charge throughout a protest for Maratha reservation in Jalna, Maharashtra. pic.twitter.com/ngJ8J7LdLs

    — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 2, 2023

    “People from across the district took part in the bandh voluntarily. We did not force them to participate,” Swarajya Party state convener Karan Gaykar.

    “State Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis should take the responsibility for the Jalna lathi-charge incident and resign. The rulers should not dare to do injustice with the Maratha community,” he stated.

    In view of the bandh name, police saved strict vigil in foremost areas throughout town.

    Meanwhile, a ‘rasta roko’ (street blockade) agitation over the problem was staged on the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Chowk on Vani-Saputara Road within the morning.

    As a outcome, visitors on the street got here to a standstill for an hour.

    NASHIK: The ‘bandh’ name given by some Maratha organisations in Nashik district of Maharashtra to protest in opposition to the current police lathi-charge on the agitators demanding quota for the group in Jalna, evoked a blended response on Sunday.

    The bandh name was given by ‘Sakal Maratha Samaj’ and ‘Maratha Kranti Morcha’.

    On Friday, an agitation searching for reservation for the Maratha group turned violent at Antarwali Sarathi village in Jalna district, resulting in a number of folks, together with dozens of police personnel, getting injured.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Police resorted to lathi-charge and lobbed tear fuel shells to disperse a violent mob that allegedly refused to let authorities shift a person on a starvation strike as a part of the quota stir to the hospital.

    The Maratha Kranti Morcha and different organisations took out a protest march in Nashik metropolis this morning.

    It started from the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and moved by means of a number of areas equivalent to Ravivar Karanja and Main Road.

    READ HERE: Day after Maratha quota stir turns violent, Opposition seeks Fadanavis scalp in Maharashtra

    They appealed to shopkeepers to maintain the retailers and enterprise institutions shut.

    In response, the retailers have been closed in some components of town for a while and have been opened within the afternoon.

    Bus and different mandatory providers weren’t affected.

    But buses are usually not being operated to Jalna and Ahmednagar by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC).

    VIDEO | Aurangabad Range Special IG Dnyaneshwar Chavan met these injured within the police lathi-charge throughout a protest for Maratha reservation in Jalna, Maharashtra. pic.twitter.com/ngJ8J7LdLs
    — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 2, 2023
    “People from across the district took part in the bandh voluntarily. We did not force them to participate,” Swarajya Party state convener Karan Gaykar.

    “State Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis should take the responsibility for the Jalna lathi-charge incident and resign. The rulers should not dare to do injustice with the Maratha community,” he stated.

    In view of the bandh name, police saved strict vigil in foremost areas throughout town.

    Meanwhile, a ‘rasta roko’ (street blockade) agitation over the problem was staged on the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Chowk on Vani-Saputara Road within the morning.

    As a outcome, visitors on the street got here to a standstill for an hour.

  • Maratha quota ruling sparks political hearth: Uddhav factors to Centre, BJP to state

    THE SUPREME COURT’s order to quash the legislation granting reservation to the Maratha group in admissions and authorities jobs Wednesday triggered a political firestorm in Maharashtra with the MVA authorities demanding an “urgent decision” from the Centre and the Opposition BJP accusing the ruling coalition of not pursuing the matter severely in court docket.
    Describing the ruling as “unfortunate”, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray stated the apex court docket dominated that the Union Government and the President have the correct to take a choice on reservation. “In a way, this is guidance to Chhatrapati Shivaji’s Maharashtra. So with folded hands, I request the Prime Minister and the President to take an urgent decision on the Maratha reservation,” he stated.
    Thackeray stated that earlier, the Centre had taken fast choices on the Shah Bano case, in reference to the Atrocities Act, and the abrogation of Article 370. “For that, it made necessary amendments in the Constitution. Now, the same promptness should be shown regarding Maratha reservation,” he stated.
    Ruling allies Congress and NCP additionally demanded motion from the Centre and accused the earlier BJP authorities within the state of “cheating” the individuals. However, BJP leaders, together with former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, hit again and accused the MVA authorities of not pursuing the matter severely. BJP state chief Chandrakant Patil referred to as it the “darkest day” in lifetime of Marathas.
    Thackeray stated Maharashtra determined to provide reservation “to protect the self-esteem of the Maratha community”, following an “outcry from the deprived section”. Taking a dig on the Centre, he stated that BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sambhaji Raje has been searching for an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Maratha reservation since final yr. “Why did the PM not give him an appointment? I am asking this question as the PM has the right to decide on the Maratha reservation,” he stated.

    Congress chief and Public Works Department Minister Ashok Chavan, who heads the state sub-committee on Maratha reservation, criticised former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for passing the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act in 2018 with out “due rights”.
    “The Union government’s 102nd amendment had taken away decisions (read powers) of awarding reservation to the Maratha community because of which the erstwhile Fadnavis government framed the SEBC Act, which has been quashed by the Supreme Court,” Chavan stated.
    The SEBC (Socially and Educationally Backward Classes) Act of Maharashtra was enacted in 2018 to grant reservation to individuals of the Maratha group within the state in jobs and admissions. “Passing a law when you had no such right amounts to misleading the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and the council by Fadnavis as the then CM. This amounts to cheating the people by giving them false information,” Chavan stated.
    The NCP stated the Centre ought to reinstate the state’s rights to grant reservations. “The state government is ready to submit a recommendation of awarding reservation to the Maratha community… Either the Union government reinstate the state’s rights to grant reservations through the court as assured on the floor of Parliament, or it should set up a backward (classes) commission,” NCP spokesperson and Minister of Minority Development Nawab Malik stated.

    Criticising the state authorities, Leader of Opposition Fadnavis stated: “The MVA government did not pursue it seriously. There were times when lawyers expressed ignorance over some information. In such matters, the state government should have played a proactive role and furnished significant information to substantiate its case.”
    BJP state president Patil stated: “The community’s struggle for reservation is shattered by the verdict. The state government is responsible for failing the Marathas.”

  • Plan panel, not a plea: prime officers advise CM Thackeray on Maratha quota

    Top bureaucrats within the Maharashtra authorities have suggested the state’s political management to undertake a recent examine which reveals the Maratha group to be a socially and economically backward group. This can then be submitted to the National Commission for Backward Classes, a physique that obtained constitutional standing in August 2018.
    The Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, which obtained the state Governor’s assent in November 2018, granted 13 per cent reservation to the Maratha group in public schooling and authorities employment. This regulation — which took the entire reservation within the state past 50 per cent — was struck down by the Supreme Court Wednesday.
    The bureaucrats have additionally suggested the federal government in opposition to initiating one other authorized battle at this level. While they’ve requested the regulation and judiciary division to discover authorized choices, an attraction in opposition to the Supreme Court judgement could not serve any function, a senior bureaucrat advised The Indian Express.
    The political management, based on sources with data of the developments put up the Supreme Court judgment, has additionally been warned in opposition to together with the Maratha group throughout the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota, as this will set off giant scale unrest throughout the state. OBC teams have already voiced their opposition to this stating any “quota within a quota” would take up an enormous share of the pie.

    “There would be mayhem if they (Marathas) get included in OBC quota,” a senior official mentioned.
    Top bureaucrats have suggested that essentially the most cautious subsequent step can be for the state authorities to fee one other examine on the backwardness of the Maratha group, and current it to the National Commission of Backward Classes. That would then be despatched to the Union Cabinet, which as soon as authorised, might be ratified by the President.

    The state must present extraordinary circumstances to show that the group wants reservations, the senior bureaucrat mentioned.
    The prime political management has additionally been briefed concerning the chance of Maratha teams staging a statewide agitation in opposition to the Supreme Court judgement quashing the quota. The Home Department has been advised to tell all Superintendents of Police (SPs) to stay vigilant to stop any untoward incident in these occasions of Covid , the official mentioned.

  • SC verdict on reservation for Maratha neighborhood unlucky, says Uddhav; MVA govt did not persuade courtroom, says BJP

    Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday stated that the Supreme Court verdict quashing the legislation granting reservation to the Maratha neighborhood in admissions and authorities jobs within the state was “unfortunate”. He additionally urged the Prime Minister and the President to take an pressing choice on the matter of granting reservation to the Maratha reservation.
    The state could not have a proper to take a call on the matter because the apex courtroom has stated however the Centre and the President can take a name, Thackeray stated. “With folded hands, I request the Prime Minister and the President to take an urgent decision. Earlier, the Centre had taken quick decisions on the Atrocities Act in connection with the Shah Bano case and on the abrogation of Article 370. It also made necessary amendments in the Constitution then. Now, the same promptness should be shown regarding the issue of Maratha reservation,” stated Thackeray.
    Thackeray additional stated that the choice to grant reservation to Marathas was taken based mostly on suggestions of the Gaikwad committee and all political events within the state legislature had unanimously agreed on it.

    Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar additionally stated that the SC choice was “unexpected and disappointing”. “We will study the verdict and take an appropriate decision on the matter,” he stated.
    Soon after the decision was introduced, protests erupted in several elements of Maharashtra, with the Maratha Kranti Morcha calling it an “unfortunate” choice and BJP in search of a particular Assembly session to debate the problem.
    Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil stated, “This is nothing but a complete failure of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government as it failed to convince the Supreme Court…It was the Fadnavis government which had appointed the Backward Class Commission, got its report and law approved in the state legislature and then convinced the high court which upheld the law. However, the MVA government could not ensure that law would be upheld in the Supreme Court. It failed to espouse proper arguments which could have convinced the apex court in upholding the law. It failed to highlight the exceptional circumstances under which the reservation was granted to the Maratha community.”
    Demanding {that a} particular Assembly session must be held to debate the matter, he added, “Not just the fact that the government failed to convince the court, there was also confusion within its ranks as well…Its lawyers were seeking postponement of hearings in the Supreme Court while pointing out that their client (the state government) has not briefed them properly.”
    MP Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje, who has been main the neighborhood’s struggle for reservation, stated, “The verdict is unfortunate but the Maratha community will accept it as it has come from the highest court of the land.”
    Calling for restraint from the neighborhood, Sambhajiraje added, “The state and the central government should find a way out of this. If other states could get reservation above 50 per cent, why can’t Maharashtra get it? We need to find out the loopholes and approach the court once again. We are going through a difficult period now. We have to save lives and therefore I urge people to observe restraint.”
    Sambhajiraje, nonetheless, didn’t maintain the state authorities accountable for the apex courtroom verdict going towards the Marathas. “While the earlier state government fought for upholding the law in high court, the present government has been also putting up a fight. Even the central government had also intervened into the matter,” he stated.
    Maratha coordinator Vinod Patil, who was one of many respondents within the case, stated, “It is a very unfortunate decision. It is going to have far-reaching consequences not only in Maharashtra but also in other states.”
    He added, “The Maratha community will continue to its fight. A review petition will have to be filed in the matter but how long will we remain caught in a legal hassle? Instead, the government should find a permanent out-of-court solution for this.”
    Describing it as “black day” for the Maratha neighborhood, Vinayak Mete, one of many Maratha neighborhood leaders, stated, “The verdict has come as a big blow to the youths of the Maratha community.”
    Mete stated state minister Ashok Chavan, who heads the cabinet sub-committee on Maratha reservation, ought to resign. “Chavan should put in his resignation as the government has failed to convince the Supreme Court as to why the law was important for the community. The Chief Minister should clarify now how he plans to deal with the situation vis-a-vis giving reservations for the community,” he stated.

    Pravin Darekar, opposition chief in state council, stated, “The government failed on all counts. It did not show any fighting spirit. Its lawyers were confused while fighting the case. The verdict has spelt darkness for Maratha community.”
    BJP spokesperson Ashish Shelar stated, “Though the government has failed to get reservation for the Maratha community in the Supreme Court, we will extend support to it if it takes strong steps for getting reservation for the community.”