This is the 58th march of the Maratha community, exactly a year after the first such protest was held in Aurangabad. The march has been organised by the Sakal Maratha Samaj, an umbrella organisation of several Maratha groups.
The farmer agitation in Madhya Pradesh has turned violent. Farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh seek not just loan waivers, but also minimum support prices (MSP). The farmers in Uttar Pradesh too are pinned down because of their economic losses and loans. In his first cabinet meeting, the new Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath had waived off loans given to small and marginal farmers. That still left thousands of farmers out of its ambit. Those who were covered by the scheme had to battle piles of paperwork.
In the wake of the farmers’ protest that has rocked Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan sat down on an indefinite fast on 10 June. The CM said that farmers could meet him at Dussehra Maidan and discuss their problems, even as the death toll in the farmers’ agitation climbed to six. In Mandsaur, curfew was relaxed on 9 June for eight hours, but the violence shifted to Bhopal. Mandsaur, the epicentre of the farmers' agitation in Madhya Pradesh, remained peaceful with authorities relaxing curfew for 12 hours from 8 am to 8 pm. As the situation eased, markets reopened and locals stepped out to stock essentials such as vegetables and milk.
1 May 1960 is an epoch-making day in the history of both, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The two states officially came into existence on this day. Ideally, both states should be celebrating this day with near equal fervour. But the state of Maharashtra seems to be celebrating it with much more fanfare than its neighbour Gujarat. The roots of this disparity lie in the making of the two entities within the Indian nation. For more videos, subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2aIcith Check out The Quint for more news: https://www.thequint.com
Nearly 40,000 Maharashtra doctors decided to go on an indefinite strike to support their colleagues agitating over the lack of security to them in the government hospitals. The 40,000-odd doctors, all members of the Maharashtra chapter of the Indian Medical Association, decided to shun work and join over 4,500 resident doctors in the state, who have been staying away from the duty for the last three days. In AIIMS Delhi, around 1,200 resident doctors turned up on duty expressing solidarity with their striking counterparts in Maharashtra. They have decided to continue this novel protest tomorrow as well. "Nobody bothers about resident doctors who were brutally beaten up. Instead of providing security to resident doctors at their workplace, the Maharashtra government is threatening them of deducting their salaries and throwing them out of their hostels," president of Resident doctors' Association of AIIMS Dr Vijay Gurjar said. "We, the resident doctors at AIIMS, will work with helmets on in the emergency department tomorrow as well," he said.
Holi Celebrations took a tragic turn as a foot over bridge collapsed in the Kalambushi village of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. The incident took place during holi celebration where at least 15 people are reported to be injured in the accident.
Setting a new political
benchmark for itself, the Bharatiya Janata Party made massive gains in
elections to major municipal corporations in Maharashtra on Friday. In the
closely-fought Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the BJP bagged 82 out of 227
seats, finishing only second to the Shiv Sena, which managed to retain its
control over 84 wards.
