A day after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declared that the Maratha community would be given a quota in jobs and education as a specially-created category, the Opposition demanded the reinstatement of a reservation for the Muslims that was given by the previous government.

Congress's Muslim legislators Arif Naseem Khan and Aslam Patel, along with Nitesh Rane, raised the demands on the sidelines of the legislative session that began Monday. Many other Opposition legislators joined them in the demand and raised slogans.