Maratha Reservation Protest: ‘Black Diwali’ in Nashik, Internet shut in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | Top 10 updates

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Maratha reservation protestors burn tyres on the Pune-Bengaluru highway near Navale bridge in Maharashtra's Pune city on Wednesday. Police have booked approximately 400-500 people. 1) Internet services have been suspended in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district – both rural and urban areas – of Maharastra on Thursday, November 2 in connection with the Maratha reservation protest.

2) The decision to suspend the internet services in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district was taken after incidents of arson and rioting. Protests and arson were also reported in other areas of Maharashtra on Wednesday. 3) Members of Maratha Kranti Morcha (MKM), lawyers and farmers belonging to the Maratha community protested in Latur city, claiming that Marathas are Kunbis as per the records dating back to the pre-Independence period and the Nizam era, which makes them eligible to get the reservation under the OBC category.

4) The protesters on Thursday blackened posters of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Bhiwandi. 5) Police have stepped up security outside the private residence of the chief minister in the Loiuswadi area in Thane city in view of the protests by Maratha community members for quota in various parts of the state. 6) Shinde's son and Kalyan MP Shrikant Shinde has written to the Thane police commissioner objecting to the "unilateral" decision by the police to divert traffic in their residential area, a move he said has drawn criticism to the Shinde family.