Mumbai: Seeking separate reservations for Brahmins on the grounds of socio-educational backwardness, Samast Brahman Samaj Maharashtra, an umbrella frame of 15 abnormal Brahmin corporations, held a day-long protest in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on Tuesday.
Members from the organization met Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in the afternoon to position their demands. “The chief minister confident us that everyone the needs, besides the call for a reservation, will be normal in principle. So, we’ve got relaunched our agitation,” Shashikant Deshpande, chief of the protest, told News18.
The demands put forth by the protestors are separate reservation, unfastened training from KG to PG, and formulation of a law to prevent Brahmins’ defamation in the USA (at the strains of atrocities act).
The protestors also demanded that the government purchase the residence where Swatantryaveer Savarkar lived in London, flip it into a memorial, and award the past freedom fighters with Bharat Ratna.
“Also, Brahmin monks need to receive Rs 5,000 honorarium each and be appointed in one-of-a-kind temples inside the states. There must be a fast creation of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj memorial inside the Arabian Sea,” Deshpande said.
Protestors had come from numerous Maharashtra districts, including Jintur, Jalna, Parbhani, and Jalgaon. “Those who have already got reservations ought to be stopped from making use of for open seats,” stated an octogenarian from Dombivali. Dressed in a Puneri pagdi, dhoti, and bajubandh kurta, he said it changed into time to convey lower back the golden days of the Indian society when Brahmins were at the helm of educational structures.
Some protestors additionally demanded separate reservations as, in step with them, the 10 in action with a cent quota for economically weaker sections will now not stand criminal scrutiny.
The Maharashtra Assembly had in December passed an invoice offering sixteen percent reservations for Marathas under socially and educationally backward classes.
The bill affords the reservation of seats for admission in instructional establishments and posts in public offerings to Marathas, who’ve been declared the socially and educationally backward class of citizens.
Partially Burnt Body of 25-Year-Old Woman Found in Maharashtra’s Thane
Thane (Maharashtra): The partially burnt frame of a woman turned into determined under a bridge in the Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday. Some locals alerted the police on Sunday once they spotted the body of an almost 25-year-old female whose face turned charred beyond recognition, lying under Raya bridge in Titwala metropolis here, police spokesman Yuvraj Kalgutke stated.
The police rushed to the spot and sent the body for postmortem, he said. The police suspect that someone killed the girl and burnt the body to cover the crime.
A case becomes registered below Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (homicide) and 201 (inflicting disappearance of evidence of offense), he stated, adding that a seek turned into one for the culprit.
Two Delhi Men Brandish Guns While Returning from Wedding, Record Video
New Delhi: The Delhi Police Sunday registered a case after a video on social media showing two guys flashing guns in Shahdara, police said.
The incident occurred on June 21 when the two guys, residents of Delhi, had been returning after attending the bridal ceremony of a chum in neighboring Uttar Pradesh, they stated.
While returning, the officer said they recorded a nearly 30-2nd video on a cell cellphone someplace in Shahdara where they may be visible retaining guns.
However, whether they opened hearts or not can be ascertained handiest after research, a senior police officer said.
The officer stated that the guys visible within the video had been recognized, and efforts we were being taken to capture them.
Multiple films of the marriage ceremony have surfaced online. Some men have been visible holding weapons and dancing at the rite the officer brought in some of them.
In some other video from the identical wedding venue, a few guys had been visible firing a couple of rounds into the air, police stated.