All businesses and trade under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee shut down today to support the Maratha reservation demand by Manoj Jarange Patil.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that his party MPs and MLAs were not sent an invitation to the all-party meeting called by the Maharashtra government on the Maratha reservation.
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.
After the Maratha reservation meeting held today, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has said that the government have formed an advisory board under the leadership of various retired Judges to look into the matter.
As per a release issued by the state government, the meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee constituted for Maratha Reservation and Facilities was scheduled to be held on Monday, October 30 in Mantralaya, the government building.
Multiple explosions took place at a prayer meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Kalamassery area of Kochi at around 9:00 am and have claimed at least two lives so far.
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.
Maratha outfits have called for a bandh on Monday (September 11) in protest against the recent lathi charge by the police in Jalna district against protesters demanding reservation in Maharashtra.