Maratha quota | Uddhav Thackeray writes to President
The Hindu
Maharashtra Chief Minister urges the President to ‘ensure reservation for the community’.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday submitted a letter to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari for President Ram Nath Kovind urging him to step in to ensure reservation for Maratha community. Mr. Thackeray also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention. “A letter requesting the President to look into the matter of Maratha reservation in view of the Supreme Court verdict was given to Bhagat Singh Koshyari. We have also written to the Prime Minister and will soon be meeting him requesting the Centre’s intervention,” said Mr. Thackeray after his interaction with Mr. Koshyari. Maratha quota |The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.