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Maratha Quota Wars

Name: Maratha Quota Wars
Uploaded: 2024-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 6 min
Description: Two influential communities - the Marathas and the OBC - are battling it out in Maharashtra. The OBC community wants to keep its reservations intact. The Marathas want quota in two categories, OBC and SEBC. What’s the way out?

2024 • 1 Season • Politics

Political

Two influential communities - the Marathas and the OBC - are battling it out in Maharashtra. The OBC community wants to keep its reservations intact. The Marathas want quota in two categories, OBC and SEBC. What’s the way out?

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Season 1

The Maratha community in Maharashtra wants to be included in OBC. They have set a deadline of January 2, 2024 for the government to fulfil their demand. This agitation is likely to change the political discourse in the most industrialised Indian state.

The Maharashtra government has approved quota for the Marathas for the third time. But reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil wants inclusion of all Marathas in OBC. Will the quota wars in the state continue?