This was the lowest tally for the party since 1998. The Maratha reservation demand helped MVA win 12 Lok Sabha seats. So what changed in these six months? The answer, curiously, is nothing. The ...
Manoj Jarange, a prominent Maratha quota activist, has refuted suggestions that his movement played no role in the Maharashtra assembly polls, which witnessed a sweep by the Mahayuti alliance ...
The Maratha and OBC communities have played a significant role in the run-up to the assembly elections, and supporters of this quartet believe this should be taken into account when the BJP ...
Quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil burst on the landscape of Maharashtra just over a year ago after the police cracked down on protesters demanding reservation for the Maratha community at ...
In a state long dominated by the towering figure of Sharad Pawar, who held sway over the Maratha vote bank for decades, Shinde’s rise signals a generational shift. Pawar, known for his strategic ...
Amidst the bustling and crowded Dadar market in Mumbai is the small Maratha Mahasangh office in Shivaji Mandir. Old pictures of the Maratha agitation since the 1980s and 1990s lie on the table and ...
In the run-up to the Maharashtra Assembly elections, if there was one person who was seen as a factor, it was Manoj Jarange-Patil. For more than a year, the Maratha quota activist kept politicians, ...
Fadnavis, as Eknath Shinde was at the helm of affairs. In this election, the OBC vote unitedly, and the Maratha vote also came in large numbers. In the Lok Sabha election, Eknath Shinde did ...
One seat was contested by Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, which the party won. The consolidation of non-Maratha votes, shift in the Maratha votes and the Ladki Bahin scheme reportedly worked their magic ...