According to ANI, the two leaders discussed key issues to be taken up before the Prime Minister. Notably, this is the second meeting between the two leaders within a fortnight.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar met Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday morning at Varsha, the official residence of the Chief Minister, before the latter departed to Delhi for a meeting with Prime Minister Modi scheduled for today.
According to ANI, the two leaders discussed key issues to be taken up before the Prime Minister. Notably, this is the second meeting between the two leaders within a fortnight.
Mumbai: NCP chief Sharad Pawar met Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray at his official residence Varsha Bungalow, ahead of CM's meeting with PM Modi in Delhi today
A delegation of state govt will meet PM to discuss Maratha & OBC reservation & cyclone relief
(Visuals from yesterday) pic.twitter.com/JWxtnvkKB1
— ANI (@ANI) June 8, 2021
The focus of the meeting is expected to be the Maratha quota issue and COVID-19 relief, GST returns among others.
Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Monday said “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”
Last month, Thackeray had written to PM 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.
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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.
Modi had also spoken to Uddhav last month on the Cyclone Tauktae related situation in the state.
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