Patil has since 2014 undertaken numerous starvation strikes and marches to push for reservation for the Maratha group. Most of his protests, nonetheless, didn’t discover resonance past Jalna district.

An avid proponent of reservations for the Maratha group, Patil has typically been a part of delegations assembly numerous state politicians looking for reservations for the group. Interestingly, there’s additionally a video of Patil hidden amongst a large number of Maratha activists attempting to place throughout his level emphasising the necessity for Maratha reservation earlier than Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in August final yr.

While Patil’s voice couldn’t attain Shinde throughout the assembly precisely a yr later the chief minister was pressured to provide a name to Patil final week after he sat on a starvation strike in requesting him to name off his agitation.

Patil determined to take a seat on a starvation strike together with seven different activists on September 29 in Jalna looking for reservations for the Maratha group. Patil is alleged to haven’t paid heed to the CMs suggestion that he name of the agitation.

The violence was sparked off after a a big police contingent descended on the protest website stating that Patil’s situation was deteriorating and he wanted to be shifted to a authorities hospital. Patil’s supporters, nonetheless, insisted that they’d get him checked via a non-public medical doctors.

Violence, nonetheless, broke out after the police is alleged to have forcefully moved in to take Patil in custody. Maratha activists complained that numerous protestors had been crushed up by the police.

Maratha activists claimed that the choice to interrupt up the whole agitation was as a result of proposed go to of a lot of Maharashtra’s high cupboard ministers throughout the “Shasan Aply Dari” initiative that was to be held in Jalna on September 8.

“The attack on the Maratha protestors was carried out to ensure that there is no hindrance for the Shasan Aplya Dari initiative that was to be held in Jalna on September 8. The government was not keen on the protest taking place at a time when all the ministers would visit Jalna and that is the reason why attack on protestors was carried out,” Aabasaheb Kudekara a Maratha activist stated.

Even because the police failed to interrupt up the protest, Patil has now became a totem for the protestors with senior politicians together with NCP chief Sharad Pawar assembly him.

Patil in the meantime has stated that he’s not going to name off his protest. “I am not going to call off my protest unless the demand for Maratha reservation is met,” Patil stated.