The focus of the meeting is expected to be the Maratha quota issue and COVID-19 relief, GST returns among others.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi at 11 am on Tuesday, according to news reports. The focus of the meeting is expected to be the Maratha quota issue and COVID-19 relief, GST returns among others.
The Chief Minister’s Office had officially sought timing from PMO a few days back. Thackeray will be accompanied by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, reported ANI.
A delegation of Maharashtra government led by CM Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will meet PM Modi in Delhi tomorrow. They will discuss issues like Maratha reservation, OBC reservation and cyclone relief: State Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil pic.twitter.com/pj2d6je8i6
— ANI (@ANI) June 7, 2021
Last month, Uddhav Thackeray wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to take steps to declare the Maratha community of the state as Socially and Educationally Backward (SEBC) to enable them to claim the reservation in education and public employment at least to 12 percent and 13 percent respectively.
The Supreme Court in May this year struck down the Maratha Reservation law saying that it exceeded the 50 percent limit of reservations and said that the power to categorize communities as SEBC lies with the Centre.
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Modi had also spoken to Uddhav last month on the Cyclone Tauktae related situation in the state. He had also reviewed the preparedness to deal with the cyclone’s fallout in a high-level meeting which was attended by several ministries and agencies concerned.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra has registered a steady (and welcome) decline in daily Covid infections and deaths over the past few weeks; the state – the worst-affected with nearly 60 lakh cases overall – has seen its active caseload fall from a high of over seven lakh in end-April to less than 1.9 lakh today.
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