Vinayak Raut Urges For Maratha, Backward Communities Reservation In Lok Sabha (image: facebook.com/RajoolPatil)

As the Parliament Winter Session started on Monday, Shiv Sena (UBT) member Vinayak Raut on Wednesday demanded reservation for Maratha community and several socially and educationally backward castes in Maharashtra, in Lok Sabha.

While participating in a debate on Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill on Lok Sabha, Vinayak Raut claimed that similar to the reservation given to socially and educationally backward communities in Jammu and Kashmir through the bills, the Union Home Ministry should propose legislation for the advancement of Maratha, Dhangar and Mahadev Koli communities of Maharashtra.

“The Maratha, Dhangar and Mahadev Koli communities have been seeking reservation for the last 25 years. I request (Home Minister) Amit Shah to give them reservation and bring a bill in Parliament to give them justice,” PTI quotes as Shiv Sena (UBT) member saying.

It was on last month, a group of the Shiv Sena (UBT) members met President Droupadi Murmu and spoke about the Maratha reservation. They requested her to examine their demand to increase the reservation quota limit in Maharashtra and added that it was the only way to resolve the ongoing reservation agitation by the Maratha community. The party MPs and leaders including Sanjay Raut, Arvind Sawant, Vinayak Raut, Sanjay Jadhav, Rajan Vichare, Anil Parab, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Omraje Nimbalkar, Sunil Prabhu, Ambadas Danve, and Ajay Chaudhary were a part of the team that met President Droupadi Murmu. Similarly, in November, Maratha quote activist, Manoj Jarange, addressing a rally in Thane, the home ground of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, pressed the government to pass Maratha reservation bill in the winter session of the state legislature than organising a special session.