Pawar to meet PM on border dispute and Maratha quota

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar will lead a delegation of Shiv Sena members of the parliament (MPs) from Maharashtra to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seek his intervention of an early resolution of the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute and the state’s case for the restoration of 12% quota in education and 13% in government jobs for the Maratha community under the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act, 2018. This was announced by Shiv Sena group leader in the Lok Sabha Vinayak Raut. Raut said that the central government should become party to the ongoing legal battle in the Maratha reservation case in the Supreme Court. “NCP president Sharad Pawar will lead the delegation of Shiv Sena MPs to meet Modi. The central government should intervene, so that the long pending Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute is resolved. As far as the Maratha quota is concerned, the delegation will urge the PM for the Centre to become a party and cooperate with the state government,” he said. -