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Mastermind behind Mahayuti’s Maharashtra triumph: Not Shinde, Fadnavis, but an RSS-linked power player

Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 were a complete surprise for the opposition, as the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti alliance achieved a resounding victory in the state. Apart from the three, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's general secretary, Atul Limaye, also played a crucial role in ensuring Mahayuti's victory. Atul Limaye's role in Mahayuti magic in Maharashtra According to a Hindustan Times report, Atul …

Maharashtra Mahayuti Maratha Bjp Rss Marathas Limaye

1 month ago

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

India Today

The BJP-led Mahayuti’s swashbuckling assembly election victory in Maharashtra, just six months into big setbacks at the hands of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in the parliamentary polls, has come on four dominant factors: cash, caste, crops and communal polarisation. CASH The state government’s Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana covering over 23 million women, and under which beneficiaries from indigent …

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1 month ago

Manoj Jarange-Patil's post-poll mission: 'Marathas want OBC quota, and will take it'

India Today

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil has been the proverbial X factor in this Maharashtra assembly election. In the run-up to the polls, Jarange-Patil’s announcement that he would form a rainbow coalition with groups like Muslims and Dalits and support candidates had led to trepidation in the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi. In an exclusive conversation with Dhaval S. Kulkarni, Jarange-Patil spoke …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why is there widespread discontent in Maharashtra?

The Hindu

In Maharashtra, the extensive network of cooperatives, particularly in the banking, sugar, and dairy sectors, has been instrumental in forging strong patronage linkages that have reinforced the Maratha community’s dominant hold on State power. Maharashtra’s latest Maratha quota law and its challenges | Explained However, this patronage system has marginalised other communities by concentrating economic and political power within the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

‘Not all BJP leaders are bad, but we are against the party, particularly Fadnavis’

Hindustan Times

The decision to withdraw from the assembly poll fray was taken in the interest of the Maratha community and not under pressure from any leader, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil told HT’s Surendra P Gangan during an exclusive interview. Edited excerpts from the interview: ‘Not all BJP leaders are bad, but we are against the party, particularly Fadnavis’ You withdrew …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Does BJP use same language when PM visits Arab nations: Owaisi on ‘vote jihad'

Deccan Chronicle

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday slammed the BJP over its leaders' “vote jihad” remark and asked if they use the same language when the prime minister visits Arab countries. Asked about the allegations that some NGOs in Maharashtra are working to propagate ‘vote jihad', Owaisi said anyone can campaign in an election by abiding by the law. …

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4 months, 1 week ago

'Win 8 Out of 88 Maharashtra Assembly Seats If You Have the Courage': Chhagan Bhujbal Challenges Activist Manoj Jarange

News 18

In a sharp political exchange, Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal challenged activist Manoj Jarange-Patil to contest 88 out of the 288 assembly seats in the state and prove his influence by winning at least eight of them. “Grant Marathas their reservation, but do not touch the OBC quota,” Bhujbal said, emphasising that the state’s leadership, including Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy …

Community Reservation Maratha Manoj Minister Marathas Obc

4 months, 1 week ago

Panipat, Marathas and the identity of Neeraj Chopra

Firstpost

The customs and culture of the Rod Maratha community of Haryana are very similar to those of the Marathas – language, rituals, style of their houses, even aspects of their cuisine In 2021, when Neeraj Chopra won his Olympic Gold at Tokyo and became a household name in the country, a tweet from Jyotiraditya Scindia drew a lot of attention. …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Maratha-OBC reservation: Uddhav Thackeray puts ball in Modi’s court

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: The political row over the Maratha-OBC reservation issue intensified on Tuesday, as activists from the Maratha Kranti Thok Morcha held an agitation near Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s residence Matoshree, demanding that he clarify his stand on the matter. Mumbai, India - July 30, 2024: Maratha Kranti Thok Morcha workers staged a protest outside Shiv Sena party chief Uddhav …

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5 months ago

BJP leader challenges MVA to clarify its stand on Maratha quota under OBC category

Deccan Chronicle

Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Saturday dared the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena to publicly clarify their stand on Maratha reservation. The three parties have supported Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange’s agitation, but remained non-committal on his demand for reservation under the OBC category. OBC outfits have vehemently opposed Jarange’s demand to include the …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Why Bhujbal landed unannounced at Sharad Pawar’s home

Hindustan Times

A day after he suggested--without naming him-- that Sharad Pawar was out to “set Maharashtra on fire” over the quota issue, Chhagan Bhujbal landed at his former boss’s Mumbai home and requested the 83-year-old Pawar to take the lead in defusing tensions in the state. Bhujbal’s conciliatory visit to Sharad Pawar’s home surprised many in the government especially after his …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Uproar in both houses of state legislature over Maratha-OBC quota row

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance’s decision to boycott Tuesday’s all-party meeting on the Maratha-Other Backward Classes reservation row led to an uproar in both houses of the state legislature on Wednesday. While the Mahayuti alliance slammed the opposition leaders for not attending the all-party meeting called by chief minister Eknath Shinde to discuss the demand to include Marathas …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Jarange-Patil holds rally in Parbhani, demands implementation of sage-soyare by July 13

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Sunday held a large awareness rally in Parbhani. “Our demand is the same old one to give blanket reservation to Marathas by issuing Kunbi certificates to all… Implement the ‘sage-soyare’ notification by July 13 else we will not approve it,” Jarange-Patil announced. All the senior leaders from all political parties have been invited to …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Purpose of Maratha quota stir not to aggravate social tensions, says Jarange-Patil

The Hindu

Categorically refuting allegations that he was indulging in ‘casteism’, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Sunday said the objective of his agitation was to secure reservation for his community and not create rifts between members of the Other Backward Classes and Marathas. Speaking in Beed district, Mr. Jarange-Patil urged the ruling Mahayuti government as well as leaders from the OBC …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Maharashtra: Maratha activist Jarange Patil 'threatens' state, demands reservation for Muslims from OBC quota

Op India

The issue of reservation for the Maratha community has been ongoing in Maharashtra for years with minimal solutions to date. Muslims should get a reservation from OBC quota: Jarange Patil On Monday, in a major setback to the OBC community in the state, Jarange Patil demanded reservation for the Muslim community from the OBC quota. OBC leaders oppose Jarange Patil’s …

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6 months ago

Marathwada simmers as Jarange-Patil, Hake cross swords

The Hindu

Maharashtra’s Marathwada region seethed with caste tensions yet again on June 21 as other backward class activist Laxman Hake, on an indefinite hunger strike, traded bitter barbs with Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil over the Maratha reservation and OBC counter-protest issue even as Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis and CM Eknath Shinde’s Mahayuti government strove to defuse tensions between the two …

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6 months ago

OBC leaders should focus on ST quota for Dhangar community, says Jarange-Patil

The Hindu

Pro-Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on June 17 said that OBC leaders should prioritise securing Scheduled Tribes category reservations for the Dhangar community rather than criticising the demand for Maratha quotas. He said that OBC leaders are “not their enemies” and assured that Marathas would support the Dhangar community’s reservation under the ST category. On June 13, Mr. Jarange-Patil suspended …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Maratha quota: Jarange-Patil warns of defeating all leaders who oppose Maratha interests in Assembly polls

The Hindu

Continuing his indefinite hunger strike for the second day on Sunday, Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil warned that any political leader opposing the interests of the Maratha community would be defeated in the upcoming State Assembly election. With the Mahayuti still reeling under the election shock, Mr. Jarange-Patil has given a further cause for worry after he warned he would …

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7 months, 1 week ago

‘Credit for split’ in Shiv Sena and NCP should be given to Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, says Fadnavis

The Hindu

In a no-holds-barred conversation with The Hindu, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP senior leader Devendra Fadnavis said if credit is due to anyone for the split in the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, it should be given to the leaders of the respective parties— Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar. When asked about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims …

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8 months ago

Marathwada could be a clincher in Maharashtra’s 48 LS seats

Hindustan Times

JALNA: Marathwada or the Central Maharashtra region could play a decisive role in the Lok Sabha sweepstakes in the state and determine whether the ruling BJP-led NDA or the opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi comes out tops. Dinesh Falke, coordinator of the Maratha Kranti Morcha, said the Maratha agitation would have a huge impact on all eight seats in central Maharashtra, …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Show your strength, defeat those against quota: Jarange-Patil to Marathas

Hindustan Times

Antarwali Sarati, a nondescript village in Jalna district of Marathwada region, came under the spotlight due to an incident of police lathicharge on a group of Maratha community members who had gathered to support Manoj Jarange-Patil, a local activist. Staying true The Maratha reservation protests, which sometimes turned violent, resulted in the state government taking several steps like fleshing out …

Community Maharashtra Congress Party Reservation Maratha Marathwada

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Maratha Quota activists to contest Assembly polls

Deccan Chronicle

Mumbai: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Sunday indicated that he wants to field Maratha community candidates in the state assembly elections instead of Lok Sabha elections. However, he has asked the community members to go to their respective villages and take opinions of the villagers on whether to contest the Lok Sabha election or not. The Maratha quota activist …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Operation Jarange-Patil: How the BJP tackled the irrepressible Maratha activist

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: He had become the unexpected face of the agitation for Maratha reservation. Maratha activist Manoj Jarange-Patil during the Marataha agitation rally in Jalna district of Maharashtra, in January. “Many of us were convinced that Shinde’s colleagues were actively supporting Jarange-Patil’s agitation,” said a BJP leader. “Our top leaders ensured that Shinde himself made such a statement publicly.” The party’s …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal did nothing for OBCs: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange

The Hindu

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on January 30 claimed the OBCs have realised that Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Chhagan Bhujbal did nothing for them and they will not feel bad if he steps down from his post. Senior OBC leader Chhagan Bhujbal has said protests will be held outside the residences of MLAs, MPs and tehsildars on February 1 against the …

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Mastermind behind Mahayuti’s Maharashtra triumph: Not Shinde, Fadnavis, but an RSS-linked power player

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

Manoj Jarange-Patil's post-poll mission: 'Marathas want OBC quota, and will take it'

Why is there widespread discontent in Maharashtra?

‘Not all BJP leaders are bad, but we are against the party, particularly Fadnavis’

Does BJP use same language when PM visits Arab nations: Owaisi on ‘vote jihad'

'Win 8 Out of 88 Maharashtra Assembly Seats If You Have the Courage': Chhagan Bhujbal Challenges Activist Manoj Jarange

Panipat, Marathas and the identity of Neeraj Chopra

Maratha-OBC reservation: Uddhav Thackeray puts ball in Modi’s court

BJP leader challenges MVA to clarify its stand on Maratha quota under OBC category

Why Bhujbal landed unannounced at Sharad Pawar’s home

Uproar in both houses of state legislature over Maratha-OBC quota row

Jarange-Patil holds rally in Parbhani, demands implementation of sage-soyare by July 13

Purpose of Maratha quota stir not to aggravate social tensions, says Jarange-Patil

Maharashtra: Maratha activist Jarange Patil 'threatens' state, demands reservation for Muslims from OBC quota

Marathwada simmers as Jarange-Patil, Hake cross swords

OBC leaders should focus on ST quota for Dhangar community, says Jarange-Patil

Maratha quota: Jarange-Patil warns of defeating all leaders who oppose Maratha interests in Assembly polls

‘Credit for split’ in Shiv Sena and NCP should be given to Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, says Fadnavis

Marathwada could be a clincher in Maharashtra’s 48 LS seats

Show your strength, defeat those against quota: Jarange-Patil to Marathas

Maratha Quota activists to contest Assembly polls

Operation Jarange-Patil: How the BJP tackled the irrepressible Maratha activist

Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal did nothing for OBCs: Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange