This year, Maharashtra will have a vote-on-account, which is presented to seek the House nod to spend funds for a few months.Asked about Jarange’s aggressive stand and the use of expletives in his speeches, Shinde said action would be taken as per law.It is a conspiracy in progress and it would be exposed soon, the CM said.The CM said, “Earlier, I believed Jarange to be a genuine person fighting for the (Maratha) community. However, the words uttered by him today do not gel well with the political culture of the state. I wonder if someone is egging on him to use such language.””If Fadnavis was against the Maratha quota, why he would even form a commission in 2018 and get a bill for reservation for the community passed,”asked Shinde.”The legislation was upheld by the Bombay High Court. There was no proper and timely representation in the Supreme Court. Who was chief minister then,” he asked, referring to the tenure of Uddhav Thackeray, who then headed the undivided Shiv Sena, as the CM.Shinde was the urban development minister in the Thackeray cabinet when the SC struck down the state move to grant Maratha quota.Shinde was also one of the members of a sub-committee set up for the Maratha reservation which was headed by then Congress’ Ashok Chavan, who is now with the BJP.Earlier, Fadnavis said the state government has a fair idea about the people behind Jarange, adding that details would come out at an appropriate time.Asked about Jarange’s announcement that he would march to Mumbai to protest in front of Fadnavis’ bungalow, the deputy CM said it was his official residence and anyone with any kind of work can visit it.
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