ADMISSION ROW: After Mumbai, Maratha protest for SEBC quota spreads across state

Mumbai | Thursday | 16th May, 2019

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The protest against the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court's decision to strike down the 16 per cent Maratha reservation for postgraduate medical seats this year is nomore restricted to Mumbai. Dr Bhosale said the delegation also met the state revenue minister Chandrakant Patil who heads the government-appointed committee for reservation to Maratha community. Recently, students from Mumbai had launched sit-in dharna at Azad Maidan in Mumbai to press for their demands. Thereafter, students delegation met the former union minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and sought Pawar's intervention in the matter. MKM has appealed to the state government to step in for restoration of admission of 250 students whose career is at stake..