New Delhi: An official stated on Tuesday that police have nabbed 49 individuals for his or her involvement within the violence that erupted in Beed district of Maharashtra throughout the Maratha reservation agitation, information company PTI reported. The native administration imposed a curfew in elements of Beed district on Monday night after a number of incidents of violence and arson geared toward politicians’ properties. Beed Superintendent of Police Nandkumar Thakur informed PTI that the state of affairs is now underneath management.
He stated, “We have registered offences for rioting and endangering lives in relation to the incidents. We have arrested 49 agitators so far. There was no trouble at night, and the situation is under control.” The official stated that additional police pressure has been despatched to the district to make sure regulation and order.
Another official stated that in line with the order issued by Beed Collector Deepa Mudhol Munde, the curfew covers a radius of 5 kilometres from the collector workplace, taluka headquarters and all nationwide highways passing by the district. Police earlier stated that on Monday morning, a gaggle of quota protesters set hearth to and threw stones on the residence of NCP (Ajit Pawar group) MLA Prakash Solanke at Majalgaon city in Beed district.
The group additionally torched a automotive parked at Solanke’s residence after an audio clip of the MLA, through which he allegedly talked in regards to the Maratha quota stir and made a veiled comment on the fasting quota activist Manoj Jarange, grew to become viral. After the assault on the legislator’s home, a gaggle of Maratha reservation protesters left from there and later burned down and broken the primary flooring of the Majalgaon Municipal Council constructing.
A gaggle of Maratha quota protesters stormed into the residential and workplace premises of NCP MLA Sandeep Kshirsagar in Beed metropolis and set them ablaze on Monday night. In one other incident, protesters set hearth to and stoned the residence of former state minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar in Beed metropolis. A crowd of Maratha protesters additionally assembled exterior the residence of NCP (Ajit pawar faction) chief Amarsingh Pandit and police used tear-gas shells to scatter them.
The violence and arson coincided with Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange’s ongoing indefinite starvation strike at Antarwali Sarati village in Jalna district since October 25 in help of the reservation demand. Maratha neighborhood members have been holding protests in varied elements of the state demanding reservation in authorities jobs and schooling underneath the OBC class.
Manoj Jarange Speaks To CM Shinde
Manoj Jarange Patil, who has been on starvation strike for seven days in Jalna district’s Antarwali Sarati, spoke to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on cellphone. The dialog lasted for about 24 minutes however Manoj Jarange is adamant on his calls for.
Congress MLA Resigns Over Maratha Agitation
Meanwhile, Suresh Varapudkar, Congress MLA from Pathri meeting seat in Parbhani district of Maharashtra, submitted his resignation to the meeting speaker. Suresh Varapudkar, Congress MLA from Pathri meeting seat in Parbhani, resigned from the meeting speaker yesterday over the reservation for Maratha, Dhangar and (*49*) communities.
