After a conversation with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Manoj Jarange Patil on Monday morning, who was on hunger strike in Antarwali Sarati village demanding Maratha reservation ended his hunger strike and took water.
Manoj Jarange Patil, who works as a coordinator for the Maratha Morcha, is on a hunger strike unto death demanding reservation for the Maratha community.
A day after Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar ensured the merging of Ramanagara with Bengaluru district, Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday said that he will stage a hunger strike till his last breath if such a move is made.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu's wife Nara Bhuvaneshwari joined party workers on a hunger strike at Rajamahendravaram in East Godavari district against Naidu's arrest.
TDP National General Secretary Nara Lokesh and party supporters on Monday staged a hunger strike at Lodhi Estate against the arrest of TDP Chief and former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu. The party workers held 'I am with CBN' posters demanding the release of Former Andhra Pradesh CM
"For the last forty hours, my brother Jagath Vikhyath Reddy and I have been on a hunger strike at Nandyal with the permission of the Superintendent of Police (SP) of the district. However, last night without any prior information, the Nandyal police detained me and handed me over to Allagadd
Hyderabad Police on Monday detained Telangana BJP president and Union minister G Kishan Reddy while he was sitting on a 24-hour hunger strike against K Chandrashekar Rao government in the state in Hyderabad's Indira Park.
Father of Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, an international advocate for girls' education has condemned anti-women policies and "gender apartheid" in Afghanistan, Khaama Press reported.
After concluding the all-party meeting on the Maratha reservation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said that the government has decided to give reservations to Marathas and accepted many of the protesters' demands.
Women rights activists along with other women have initiated a hunger strike to bring the issues regarding global neglect of Afghan women and gender apartheid, reported Khaama Press.
The Federation of Bar Association of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry held a one-day hunger strike protest at Thiruvallur District Court campus against the government’s three bills to replace all three laws of the IPC, CRPC and Evidence Act.
As rest of the Kerala celebrates Onam, Congress MP K Suresh and leaders from Kuttanad in Alappuzha are observing a hunger strike outside the secretariat in solidarity with farmers protesting for allegedly not getting the price of paddy procured from them.