New Delhi: From reducing duty on the export of onions, mostly produced in Maharashtra, to opening up the Banjara Virasat Museum, the BJP has been taking several measures to correct its caste arithmetic in the poll-bound state and is also trying to strengthen its MADHAV formula – a combination of three OBC castes. In the … Read more
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule has said the Mahayuti government in the state is positive towards finding a consensus solution to the reservation-related demands of the Marathas and OBCs. After meeting a government delegation on Saturday, activists Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare ended their hunger strike over the demand that the Other Backward Classes (OBC) … Read more
On protests in Beed, Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal on June 22 said that the demand raised was to get a separate reservation for the OBCs and Maratha people. “We just want to say that we are not against the Maratha people, we want OBCs and Maratha people to get a separate reservation. There should not … Read more
JALNA: Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange on Sunday urged Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take action against certain people who were attacking Marathas for not voting for the BJP candidate in Beed in the Lok Sabha election. Speaking to reporters on the second day of his indefinite fast at Antarwali Sarathi village, Jarange claimed … Read more
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday approved a bill, extending reservation to Marathas above the 50 per cent mark in a special session of the state legislature. The bill for 10 per cent Maratha quota that the Mahayuti government of Eknath Shinde has approved on Tuesday is similar to the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, … Read more
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday appealed to quota activist Manoj Jarange not to head to Mumbai, stressing that the state commission for backward classes is on the job. Jarange, who set off from his village Antarwali Sarati in Jalna district on Saturday, has declared that he would come to Mumbai with lakhs of … Read more
