Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maharashtra school education minister Deepak Kesarkar has questioned the intention behind staging agitations in support of reservation for the Maratha community despite assurance from the state government.I am not blaming anyone. The Maratha community will be given independent reservation and while doing so, the state government has assured that the OBC reservation will not be disturbed.When the government has announced this, why are the agitations being held? The people who are going to get reservation are holding agitations. What should others, who do not have any reservation, do? Should there not be any peace? he said.Who has given them the right to cause unrest in Maharashtra. I am not saying who is causing unrest, you all have seen the unrest. The castes are being pitted against each other, but for what? For votes? Reservation is for imparting education and for their employment, or is it for establishing someones leadership? Kesarkar said. Stating that he belongs to the OBC community, Kesarkar said, My constituency has 90 per cent Maratha community and I have been elected thrice from this constituency. Why is the Maratha community being misled?He refused to comment on the statements of states civil supplies minister Chhagan Bhujbal and said that Kunbi reservation has been there since 1967, it is just that the records were untraceable. Kesarkar, during his public address in Beed district, said, Pitting castes against other castes is not in the interest of the state. After a span of eight to 10 years, the government has started recruitment for filling one lakh posts, of which any given caste should have 5,000 or 10,000 posts. But does that mean the entire state should be set on fire for the sake of these 10, 000 posts? We also published the following articles recentlyMaharashtra: School education minister Deepak Kesarkar questions posting of ex-Jalna SP to CIDThe posting of former police superintendent of Jalna, Tushar Doshi to the CID in Pune has led to discord within the Mahayuti alliance. School education minister Deepak Kesarkar has requested the posting to be stayed due to ongoing probe into the lathi-charge on Maratha protesters. The opposition criticized the government for giving Doshi a favorable posting instead of taking strong action against him. Lack of coordination within the government parties was also highlighted, raising questions about transparency.Maharashtra education minister Deepak Kesarkar threatens woman aspiring teacher; faces criticismMaharashtra school education minister Deepak Kesarkar, a member of the Shiv Sena, faced criticism for losing his composure during an interaction with a woman aspiring to be a teacher. The woman had questioned Kesarkar about significant delays in the teacher recruitment process. Kesarkar initially addressed the queries, stating that the recruitment process had commenced and the portal for teacher recruitment was functional. However, he became agitated when the female aspirant posed follow-up questions challenging his claims. Kesarkar expressed disapproval of her perceived indiscipline and even threatened disqualification of the woman candidate from the recruitment process.Stop giving Marathas Kunbi certificates: Maharashtra minister Chhagan BhujbalFood and civil supplies minister Chhagan Bhujbal demanded the winding up of the Justice Shinde committee and the scrapping of Kunbi caste certificates given to Marathas. He suggested a comparative study instead of the Nirgude committee to establish the backwardness of the Maratha community and emphasized the need for a caste census. Bhujbal criticized Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil for instigating violence and breaking the community. He also highlighted the illegal prevention of OBC leaders from entering villages and the Maratha communitys significant representation in the EWS quota. OBC leader Babanrao Taywade called for strength in dealing with those who insult the community.

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