Mumbai: In response to the anti-quota agitation, Public Works Department Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal is holding a pro-reservation demonstration on Tuesday.
Hundreds of pro-quota activists and members of the Mahatma Phule Samta Parishad, the outfit for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) floated by Bhujbal, have gathered at the Azad Maidan, Mumbai.
The Parishad activists will take out a morcha from the Maidan to the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar statue at Cooperage near Mantralaya in south Mumbai, a Parishad office-bearer said.
While supporting the reservations, Bhujbal on Monday had criticised the anti-quota protestors and those condemning police lathicharge on the agitating students.
"Maharashtra has seen several social movements wherein people have sacrificed their lives for just causes. The overwhelming populace in the state is in favour of reservations", he said.
Bhujbal had recently organised an all-India rally of OBCs at Delhi also.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Republican Party of India activists had also organised a pro-quota demonstration at the Azad Maidan, a few metres from the spot where doctors and medical students had held an anti-quota dharna.
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