Key Points
Beed/Mumbai: Quota activist Manoj Jarange has announced that he will start an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan in Mumbai from January 20 to intensify his demand of reservation for the Maratha community...
However, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has urged people to exercise restraint and said the Supreme Court has accepted the curative petition filed by the state government on the Maratha reservation issue and scheduled a hearing on January 24...
Meanwhile, in a video message, CM Shinde said the state governments legal team comprising a battery of efficient lawyers will present its view before the Supreme Court and make all efforts to prove that the Maratha community is socially and economically backward...
Shinde said the previous Devendra Fadnavis-led government had given reservation to the Maratha community, which was upheld by the Bombay High Court...
The observations of the Supreme Court (while striking down the reservation) will be taken into cognisance while gathering empirical data about the Maratha community..
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