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Ahead of Maharashtra Assembly polls, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil to launch peace rally
Manoj Jarange Patil revising his tone of pressuring the government with his protest, is now moving to a strategic stance
Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil. File photo
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Ahead of a peace rally across western Maharashtra from August 7, as an extension to its Marathwada tour, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil asked the Maratha community to be prepared for the upcoming Assembly polls on Tuesday.
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Mr. Jarange Patil revising his tone of pressuring the government with his protest, is now moving to a strategic stance. He has hinted at acquiring the power and availing the reservation. “The picture will be clear on August 29, whether to fight elections or not, but to be ready with papers, one candidate from each constituency will contest if the government do nothing about the reservation. We are gathering data from all 288 Assembly constituencies and will discuss the strategies after the tour. This time, it will be the wave of common man, will fight independently, do not require alliance,” he said.
Mr. Jarange Patil has already left for Solapur, from where he will start his rally. In the second phase of the tour, his caravan will visit seven districts of Western Maharashtra, covering Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara, Pune, Ahilyanagar, and Nashik from August 7 to August 13.
For a year now, Mr. Jarange Patil has been fighting for Maratha reservation, demanding to recognise Kunbis as ‘Sage Soyare’, and providing the option of choosing the reservation under any one of the categories- EWS (Economically weaker section), Socially and Educationally Backward Class (SEBC) classification, and Kunbi-Other Backward Class (OBC) reservation.
After, BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi(VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar, NCP leader Chaggan Bhujbal, and Former minister and BJP MP Narayana Rane, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray opposed reservation and advocated for giving preference to locals of Maharashtra instead of an outsider.
Proposal for alliance
Meanwhile, many political parties are looking for an alliance with Manoj Jarange Patil. The prominent farmer leader and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana Chief Raju Shetti working to unite all small parties for the third alliance, for he met him in Jalna.
Prahar Janshakti Party (PJP) MLA Bachchu Kadu has also asked Manoj Jarange Patil to join forces with him. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Admi Party (AAP), the AAP leader Preeti Sharma Menon on Monday, who announced to fight on 36 seats of Mumbai, supported Maratha reservation and said marginalized sections are subjected to violence and the Government is not serious on the issue of Maratha reservation.
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