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Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange, who launched an indefinite hunger strike at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on August 29 seeking a 10 per cent quota for the Maratha community in government jobs, agreed to call off his protest on Tuesday after a breakthrough with the Maharashtra government.

 

Calling it a victory for the agitators who had been demonstrating at Azad Maidan for the past four days, Jarange said the government had accepted their key demand of granting Kunbi status an OBC caste to the Maratha community.

 

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He added that his supporters would vacate the protest site once the government issued a formal resolution.

 

Jarange also said the state government had assured them that all cases filed against protesters during the agitation would be withdrawn. In addition, compensation would be paid within a week to the families of those who lost their lives during the Maratha quota stir.