Govt committed to providing reservation to Maratha community, says Maharashtra CM Shinde

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n the state. We will not sit quiet until the community get its due reservation," PTI reported quoting Shinde. "Till the Maratha community gets reservation, the government schemes that are already in place will continue and deserving people from the Maratha community will benefit from it," Shinde added.

Reservation in jobs and education provided by the state government to the Maratha community was quashed by the Supreme Court in May 2021, citing the 50% ceiling on total reservations among other grounds. Several people, including dozens of police personnel get injured after Marathas agitation seeking reservation turned violent at Antarwali Sarathi village in Jalna on Friday. Police resorted to lathi-charge and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a violent mob that allegedly refused to let authorities shift a man on a hunger strike as part of the quota stir to the hospital.

Police registered a case against more than 360 people in connection with the violence, officials said. When asked why Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who along with eight other Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs joined his government two months ago, was not present at the event, CM Shinde said, "Ajit Pawar informed me that he is unwell. He is down with fever, while Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis is in Ladakh to attend a military event." There was no misunderstanding among all three of them, he asserted.