He also launched an attack at Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Jadhav. Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil, who is on his second day of protest, has called for cancellation of Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde’s event in Parbhani.
He also said the Maratha community’s core committee would meet in Antarwali Sarati on September 12 to decide whether to stage a hunger strike in Mumbai. Addressing reporters in Parbhani on the second day of his protest , Jarange criticised Jadhav for going ahead with the event despite being asked to cancel it, news agency ANI reported. “He has been chosen to work for the Marathi people. Keep this in mind. You were asked to cancel the event, but you did not do so. This is your biggest mistake. Your existence was not to hold programs, but to take care of the Maratha community. Now your politics have become obsolete. Adding that issuing authorities like tehsildars and sub-divisional officers are already fully competent, he argued that two-tier verification is entirely uncalled-for and vowed to continue his protest until these committees are abolished. The meeting focused on the Hyderabad Gazetteer, the government resolution concerning concessions for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and other issues related to the Maratha community. His core demand includes that eligible Marathas be recognised as Kunbis, an agrarian community that enjoys reservation benefits in education and government jobs under the Other Backward Class category. He stressed that the government must recognise all Marathas as Kunbis, warning that he would march to Mumbai and intensify the agitation if it failed to do so.
I am asking Eknath Shinde to cancel the program, or we will answer back,” he said.
