Overview

• More than 1,500 Mumbai Police personnel with CRPF, RAF, CISF and Maharashtra Security Force units are deployed, with resources stretched by Ganeshotsav security and a visit by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
• Police have permitted a demonstration on August 29 from 9 am to 6 pm with a cap of 5,000 people, no morcha, only five vehicles allowed at the ground and strict conditions on sound and crowd management.
• Officials anticipate over 20,000 supporters in south Mumbai, yet Azad Maidan can hold about 5,000, leading police to deny protest permissions to other groups on the same day.
• Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis reaffirmed a 10% Maratha quota and pledged no injustice to OBCs, as minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil said the state is ready for talks and is verifying records to issue Kunbi certificates with an extended Justice Shinde committee.
• OBC leaders opposed indiscriminate Kunbi certification and announced a chain hunger strike in Nagpur, and a Jarange supporter died of a heart attack near Junnar while traveling to the protest, police said.