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He said Shinde, then CM, had constituted the Justice Shinde Committee to trace historical records and claimed that the 58 lakh records identified so far dated back to 1967.
Yet, a legally questionable exercise was undertaken in Patoda,” he said, claiming that no certificate had been issued under the Hyderabad Gazette even after more than a year. “Members of the Maratha community should not accept certificates issued on that basis,” Lakhe Patil said. “Jarange’s agitation is being conducted under a political contract, and Vikhe Patil is behind it,” he alleged, while announcing plans to hold a felicitation programme for Shinde in Jalna or Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Lakhe Patil also accused Jarange of running a campaign to tarnish deputy CM Shinde’s image. Demanding that Vikhe Patil step down from the state cabinet sub-committee on Maratha quota, Lakhe Patil alleged that the minister and Jarange were working together for political gains. Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar : Maratha Kranti Morcha state coordinator Sanjay Lakhe Patil on Saturday questioned the intent behind quota activist Manoj Jarange’s agitation, alleging that the movement had moved beyond the issue of Maratha reservation and was being used to politically promote minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil while targeting deputy CM Eknath Shinde .