Mumbai News LIVE Updates: `Decisions on Maratha quota being implemented; no question of rollback`

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: `Committee keeps doors open for discussions with everyone`

The government resolution (GR) was issued after the state cabinet sub-committee on Maratha reservation successfully persuaded quota leader Manoj Jarange to withdraw his hunger strike in Mumbai on September 2. Vikhe Patil said, "The committee has kept its doors open for discussions with everyone. The effort is to preserve social harmony in the state, and the sub-committee is working on that line under the chief minister`s guidance."

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: OBC community raises concerns over GR allowing Marathas to seek Kunbi caste certificates

The Other Backward Class (OBC) community has expressed apprehensions after the state social justice and special assistance department issued the GR on implementing the Hyderabad gazetteer, which will allow eligible members of the Maratha community to apply for Kunbi caste certificates. This will enable them to claim quota under the OBC category after certificates are issued.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Decisions on Maratha quota being implemented; no question of rollback, says Vikhe Patil

Maharashtra Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, who heads the state cabinet sub-committee on Maratha quota, on Tuesday said that decisions regarding reservations are already being implemented and there is no question of a rollback. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee, Vikhe Patil said that OBC leader and state Minister Chhagan Bhujbal`s "misunderstandings" on the issue would be clarified in person. (PTI)

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Passengers raised alarm, RPF man stepped back: Railway firing witness

A key witness in the July 2023 railway firing incident, in which an RPF constable allegedly shot and killed four people aboard a moving train, on Tuesday told a local court that the accused had pointed his gun at him and his family, but withdrew when passengers raised an alarm.