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Notably, the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission on Friday submitted a report on its survey on the social, economic, and educational backwardness of the Maratha community. The massive exercise covered nearly 2.5 crore families.

A 28-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Thursday seeking quota for the Maratha community.

Farmer leader Raju Shetti asked political leaders in Maharashtra to expedite the resolution of the long-pending Maratha reservation issue.

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Thursday said that if his party is voted to power in the state and at the Centre in the next elections.

Raj Thackeray met the people agitating in Jalna for the Maratha quota and said they should not allow those who ordered lathi-charge on the protesters to enter Marathwada.

The Nationalist Congress Party and Congress on Friday condemned the baton-charge by police on protestors seeking reservation for the Maratha community.

The Supreme Court on September 9 last year stayed the implementation of the the 2018 Maharashtra law granting reservation to Marathas in education and jobs.