Maratha Reservation: Maharashtra State Commission for Backward Classes to collect information

Last updated Aug 7, 2018

NP NEWS NETWORK

MUMBAI

Maratha Kranti Morcha is affecting all over Maharashtra. Today (Tuesday) the State Government has submitted an affidavit to the High Court to settle the issue of Maratha reservation.

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The information from the Maharashtra State Commission for Backward Classes has been told to collect and complete the information till September 5. The Maharashtra State Commission for Backward Classes has issued one-page status report to the State Government on August 3. This report stresses the educational, social and economic backwardness of the Maratha community. The hearing in the court is going on in this regard.

The Maratha Reservation was expected to be held on August 14 in the Bombay High Court. However, the petitioner Vinod Patil had requested that the hearing should be done early in the state.

Vinod Patil, Maratha activist and the petitioner in the high court, said he had requested the court to advance the hearing in view of the violent protests and suicide by Maratha Youth demanding quota.

So, the hearing is being taken seven days before. The agitation is going on across the state from the issue of reservation. Besides, almost twelve youth have so far committed suicide including the Twenty-seven-year-old Kakasaheb Shinde by jumping off a bridge into Godavari river in Aurangabad. On this backdrop, the petitioners were requested to take an early hearing.

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The Government would complete the legal procedure to give reservation to the Marathas by November this year, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said in a televised address on Sunday. “If the legal formalities are not completed by November, we will call a special season of the state legislature to complete those,” Fadnavis had said,

The CM also said that as the commission is an autonomous body, the government cannot pressure it into submitting its report.

The decision of the Maratha Reservation should be taken now, to start the new academic year. A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court in December 2017, thus preventing the loss of lakhs of students. A division bench of Justice Ranjeet More and Justice Anujya Prabhu – Desai is hearing the petition. Vinod Patil has filed this petition.

However, the Sakal Maratha Samaj, which is leading the protest all over Maharashtra, has refused to call off the stir, though it welcomed the decision to stay the recruitment drive.