Pro-Maratha reservation protestors on Tuesday burn tyres on the Pune-Bengaluru highway near Navale bridge in Maharashtra's Pune city, a day after they set on fire the houses of several MLAs in the state. According to ANI, the protest severely affected the movement of vehicles.
The visuals show a large number of people burning tyres, shouting slogans and disrupting the traffic.
This comes after Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde held a telephonic conversation with Maratha reservation activist Manoj Jarange Patil earlier in the day. According to news agency ANI, CM Shinde inquired about the health of Jarange Patil, who is sitting on an indefinite hunger strike seeking reservation for people belonging to the Maratha community in the state.
The agency stated that there was a positive discussion between the two regarding providing reservations to the Maratha community. CM Shinde assured Patil that a concrete decision would be taken in Monday's cabinet over giving Kunbi certificates to the Maratha community.
On Monday, the houses of two NCP MLAs and the office of a BJP MLA were set ablaze by the agitators. They also attacked a municipal council building and caused massive disruptions in road traffic, news agency PTI reported. CM Shinde had warned them saying the protest was going in a "wrong direction".
The violence led to the clampdown on internet services while a curfew was imposed in the Beed district where pro-reservation protestors burnt the house of an NCP MLA. The legislator said he was inside when his house was set on fire but no one suffered any injury. He added that there was a massive loss of property though.
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