TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Amid the ongoing Maratha quota agitation that sparked violence in parts of Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has decided to convene a meeting of leaders of all parties here tomorrow to discuss the issue.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the chief minister at his cabinet colleague Vinod Tawde’s residence late last night which was attended by BJP ministers Chandrakant Patil, Girish Mahajan, Subhash Deshmukh, the party’s state unit chief Raosaheb Danve, among others.
The meeting started around 11 pm and continued for about three hours. “Invitation for tomorrow’s meeting, to be held at Vidhan Bhavan, will be sent across today. We will try and come up with a solution to the issue of Maratha reservation,” Revenue minister Chandrakant Patil said.
Danve said the BJP government in the state was committed to providing reservation to the Maratha community and hence has passed an ordinance to the effect. “However, the court had put a stay on the government’s decision. We will submit the report of the state Backward Classes Commission to the court and request it to decide on the issue soon,” he said. A protester, who was injured in the violence during the Maratha quota stir in adjoining Navi Mumbai, has succumbed to his injuries at the government-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai.
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