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The Maharashtra assembly election has turned into a battle between the OBCs and the dominant Marathas. Prakash Ambedkar, president of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), says the OBC quotas will go after the assembly election, followed by the SC and ST reservations once the report on sub-categorisation is submitted. The OBCs oppose the demand of the Marathas and feel they …

Maharashtra: Violence in Jalna, Beed, Pune over Maratha reservation, Manoj Jarange Patil ends strike after govt files curative petition in SC

Explained: SC striking down Maratha reservation will keep the pot stirring over quota agitation

Calls for a fresh push for the demand have followed the Supreme Court’s 5 May decision that held that total reservations cannot breach the 50 percent ceiling. Far from conclusively resolving the issue, the Supreme Court verdict striking down the reservation for the Maratha community in Maharashtra has only served to keep the pot stirring of the quota agitation in …

After SC Setback, Maharashtra Govt Extends EWS Quota to Marathas

The Maharashtra government on Monday extended benefits under the the economically weaker section quota to the Maratha community, days after the Supreme Court scrapped a separate reservation in jobs and education for the dominant social group. The central law on the EWS quota was enacted more than two years ago to allow reservation for the poor in jobs and education …

Last Tuesday, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray along with a group of ministers called on Maharashtra governor B S Koshyari and submitted a letter addressed to President Ramnath Kovind. “The previous BJP government in the state gave the reservation to Marathas but the MVA government failed to defend it,” said state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Saturday as he announced that …

Maharashtra CM terms SC decision to quash Maratha reservation as unfortunate

SC strikes down Maharashtra law granting quota to Marathas

'For how many generations will reservations continue?', SC on Maratha quota case

For How Many Generations Reservations in Jobs and Education Will Continue, Says SC

Maratha quota: SC to hear schedule of hearing pleas on February 5

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would decide on February 5 the schedule of hearing on the pleas pertaining to the 2018 Maharashtra law granting reservation to Marathas in education and jobs after the state government said a case of this nature be heard once physical hearing commences. On December 9 last year, the apex court had said that …

Relaxation of 50% cap on reservation for Marathas in Maharashtra unwarranted, rules SC

The Supreme Court on Wednesday in a judgment expressed the prima facie opinion that the relaxation of the 50% cap on reservation for the Maratha community in Maharashtra is unwarranted. “Applying the law laid down by this Court in Indra Sawhney, we are of the prima facie opinion that the State of Maharashtra has not shown any extraordinary situation for …

No Extraordinary Situation Shown To Provide Reservations To Marathas By Relaxing 50% Ceiling Limit, Says SC [Read Judgment]

SC stays implementation of 2018 Maharashtra law granting reservation to Marathas in education & jobs

A three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday referred a group of petitions challenging the Maratha reservation law to a Constitution Bench. The Bench led by Justice L. Nageswara Rao found merit in the arguments made by senior lawyers that a larger Bench should examine the issue of reservation for the Maratha community. Some of the senior lawyers had …