Overview

• Jarange announced a hunger strike in Mumbai beginning August 29 and urged Marathas to finish farming within two months in preparation for a mass march.
• He accused the Maharashtra government of betraying the community by failing to implement four key reservation measures agreed upon after earlier protests.
• The activist is pressing for all Marathas to be reclassified as Kunbis under the OBC category to secure education and government job quotas.
• Jarange cited over 58 lakh collected documents and historical records from the Bombay, Satara and Hyderabad gazettes to substantiate the Maratha-Kunbi link.
• He condemned the state’s refusal to withdraw cases against reservation protesters and vowed he “will not back down this time” if officials do not act.