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In Ahmednagar, activists have blocked the Pune highway.
The issue of cancellation of OBC reservation in local body elections in Maharashtra has heated up the political atmosphere in the state. After the announcement of BJP state president Chandrakant Patil, today BJP workers are protesting at 1,000 places across the state. There have been many places in the state including Thane, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Aurangabad, Solapur. In view of this proposed protest of BJP, a large number of police force has been deployed. Police have also detained BJP workers who were creating a ruckus in Thane.
Against this performance of BJP, Congress state president Nana Patole has announced that she will soon launch a statewide agitation against the central government.
BJP leader Praveen Darekar protesting with his supporters on a road in Thane.
Protest latest update
- BJP’s traffic jam has started in Vasai against the Thackeray government. Here hundreds of BJP workers under the leadership of BJP leader Prasad Lad, Vasai Virar city district president, Rajan Naik are jamming the wheel at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Chowk.
- Hundreds of BJP workers, under the leadership of MP Ramdas Tadas, District President Shirish Gode, are protesting at Bajaj Chowk in the city.
- In Nashik, BJP workers are protesting sitting on the Mumbai-Agra highway. He also had a clash with the police here.
- Mumbai’s Mulund has been converted into a checknaka cantonment, with hundreds of police personnel deployed there to prevent any untoward incident.
- Hundreds of BJP workers, led by Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis, are protesting on the street. Here the leaders have announced Jail Bharo Andolan.
- In Mumbai, party workers under the leadership of BJP Ashish Shelar and MP Manoj Kotak have started the Chakka Jam movement at Mulund toll naka.
- The agitation is being led by Pankaja Munde in Pune and Pritam Munde in Parli.
BJP leaders are agitating for the demand of OBC reservation on the Western Express Highway near Dahisar check nose in Mumbai.
Supreme Court said that reservation cannot be more than 50 percent
The Supreme Court had struck down Article 12 of the Zilla Parishad Act of the Government of Maharashtra. The court had clarified that the system of reservation has been fixed according to the population and in no case more than 50 percent reservation can be given. The Supreme Court had also clearly ordered that OBCs cannot be given more than 27% reservation. Following this constitutional limit, elections should be conducted in the Zilla Parishad. After the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel the reservation, Maharashtra had filed a review petition in the court, but the court has also canceled it.
In Nagpur, the former CM along with his supporters blocked the main square of the city.
BJP’s announcement: If elections are not postponed, OBC candidates will field every seat
On this issue, former CM Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday – if the proposed five Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections are not carried forward, then BJP will field only OBC face in every seat. Fadnavis had said that, “The state government should constitute a Backward Classes Commission and submit the data for OBC reservation. If the government needs our help in this, we are fully ready to cooperate with them. But perhaps this government had no intention of giving reservation to OBCs.”
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