Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil alleges 'conspiracy' against reservation
Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil has warned the Maharashtra government that he would be intensifying an agitation seeking the Maratha quota if the quota issue was not resolved by October 29. The warning comes in the backdrop of reports of vandalism from parts of the state with politicians being targeted.
«Wait and watch what happens in the future,» said Patil who is on an indefinite fast at the Antarvalli sarati village in Jalna.
Patil said that they would further intensify their stir after October 29.
The Maratha leader was livid that the Maratha quota issue was not resolved during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state on Thursday.
«In spite of everything in favour of the Marathas to get the quota, we are still not being given a reservation. Maharashtra chief minister and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis are involved in a conspiracy against Maratha youths so that they don't get reservations,» alleged Jarange Patil.
While Patil has been speaking of a non-violent stir, his utterances and fast have fired up the Maratha community.
On Thursday night, Nanded MP Pratap Patil Chikhalikhar, a BJP MP who had arrived to meet a 'friend' in Ambulga village in Nanded saw two of his vehicles in his cavalcade vandalised by local villagers.
The vandalism came after thousands of Maratha-dominated villages in the state announced that they would bar politicians from visiting their villages until the Marathas did not get their quota.
A day earlier Maratha youths vandalised vehicles belonging to lawyer Gunaratna Sadavarte who had filed a petition opposing the Maratha quota.
