Quota Demand

Maratha quota: Activist Manoj Jarange-Patil launches another indefinite hunger strike

This is the sixth protest held by Jarange-Patil in the past year to demand reservations for the community in education and government jobs.

Scroll Staff
· Sep 17, 2024 · 08:37 pm
Marathas will get OBC benefits till quota is implemented, announces Maharashtra CM

Eknath Shinde assured the protestors that his government would ensure reservation that is legally sound and does not cause injustice to any other community.

Scroll Staff
· Jan 27, 2024 · 01:48 pm
Maratha quota activist ends hunger strike, says Maharashtra government has accepted demand

On Friday night, a state government delegation went to Vashi in Navi Mumbai to meet the activist.

Scroll Staff
· Jan 27, 2024 · 09:23 am

Pass Maratha quota law by December 24 or face protests, activist Jarange-Patil warns government

Jarange-Patil has demanded that Marathas be identified as Kunbis under the Other Backward Classes category.

Scroll Staff
· Dec 18, 2023 · 09:01 am
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad advocates SC/ST reservations in judiciary: Times of India

The move will improve the judiciary’s representative character by drafting in trained officers from deprived sections of society, he said.

Scroll Staff
· Dec 26, 2018 · 01:12 pm
Maratha quotas: Lawyer opposing reservation attacked outside Bombay High Court

The man who attacked the lawyer was detained and an investigation is under way.

Scroll Staff
· Dec 10, 2018 · 04:47 pm

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Quota Demand

Maratha quota: Activist Manoj Jarange-Patil launches another indefinite hunger strike

This is the sixth protest held by Jarange-Patil in the past year to demand reservations for the community in education and government jobs.

Scroll Staff · Sep 17, 2024 · 08:37 pm

Marathas will get OBC benefits till quota is implemented, announces Maharashtra CM

Eknath Shinde assured the protestors that his government would ensure reservation that is legally sound and does not cause injustice to any other community.

Scroll Staff · Jan 27, 2024 · 01:48 pm

Maratha quota activist ends hunger strike, says Maharashtra government has accepted demand

On Friday night, a state government delegation went to Vashi in Navi Mumbai to meet the activist.

Scroll Staff · Jan 27, 2024 · 09:23 am

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Caste stir threatens to spread in Gujarat as leader of Patel agitation is briefly detained

Curfew imposed in Surat and Mehsana in bid to contain violence.

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