Devendra Fadnavis should not be allowed to continue in BJP, says Manoj Jarange-Patil
Pravin Gaikwad, who heads the state unit of Sambhaji Brigade, said, “BJP's game plan has boomeranged. The Maratha community is mighty upset, and the government has rubbed salt into their wounds.”
Vinod Patil, key coordinator of Maratha Kranti Morcha, who had first petitioned the Supreme Court seeking reservation for the community, said, “'The handling of the Jalna protest highlights how this government is being run. (Express File Photo)
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Led by Manoj Jarange-Patil, who is on hunger strike in Antarwali Saraati village of Jalna district, some organisations of Maratha community on Sunday slammed Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, who is also the state’s Home Minister, and demanded his resignation for his statements the incident and lathicharge on agitators on Friday. MVA leaders also rebuked Fadnavisand asked him to step down from his post.
“Not only should Fadnavis resign, but also he should not be allowed to remain in BJP. CM Eknath Shinde should not keep Fadnavis in his ministry or Shinde himself should exit the ministry. Devendra Fadnavis said that the protesters attacked the police first… He told the police to attack our people. He himself isn’t coming here, but is taunting others. Are you the home minister,” Jarange-Patil said in Antarwali Sarathi village where he is staging a protest from Tuesday.
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In the evening after a BJP delegation met him, and Fadnavis spoke to him over phone, Jarange-Patil told reporters, “Fadnavis told me that he was wrongly informed by police and said he has taken action against a top police officer and will act against others too.”
Vinod Patil, key coordinator of Maratha Kranti Morcha, who had first petitioned the Supreme Court seeking reservation for the community, said, “’The handling of the Jalna protest highlights how this government is being run. It is a complete failure of the government… the entire government should step down.”
Pravin Gaikwad, who heads the state unit of Sambhaji Brigade, said, “BJP’s game plan has boomeranged. The Maratha community is mighty upset, and the government has rubbed salt into their wounds.”
Manoj More has been working with the Indian Express since 1992. For the first 16 years, he worked on the desk, edited stories, made pages, wrote special stories and handled The Indian Express edition. In 31 years of his career, he has regularly written stories on a range of topics, primarily on civic issues like state of roads, choked drains, garbage problems, inadequate transport facilities and the like. He has also written aggressively on local gondaism. He has primarily written civic stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad, Khadki, Maval and some parts of Pune. He has also covered stories from Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahmednagar and Latur. He has had maximum impact stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial city which he has covered extensively for the last three decades.
Manoj More has written over 20,000 stories. 10,000 of which are byline stories. Most of the stories pertain to civic issues and political ones. The biggest achievement of his career is getting a nearly two kilometre road done on Pune-Mumbai highway in Khadki in 2006. He wrote stories on the state of roads since 1997. In 10 years, nearly 200 two-wheeler riders had died in accidents due to the pathetic state of the road. The local cantonment board could not get the road redone as it lacked funds. The then PMC commissioner Pravin Pardeshi took the initiative, went out of his way and made the Khadki road by spending Rs 23 crore from JNNURM Funds. In the next 10 years after the road was made by the PMC, less than 10 citizens had died, effectively saving more than 100 lives.
Manoj More's campaign against tree cutting on Pune-Mumbai highway in 1999 and Pune-Nashik highway in 2004 saved 2000 trees.
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