India, July 7 -- Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil embarked on an eight-day peach march on Saturday to push the demand for the inclusion of Marathas in Other Backward Classes (OBC). The 'Maratha Quota Awareness Peace March' will conclude in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on July 13 after covering eight districts of Marathawada.

Jarange-Patil, who had sat on indefinite hunger strike multiple times from August 2023 to June this year to push his demands, had given one month to the state government to decide on the 'sage soyare' notification. The state government, on June 13, had assured him it would issue the notification in a month. After the assurance, given by a delegation of ministers, the activist had said that if the state govern...