Pro-Maratha quota activist’s kidneys, liver swollen; doctors indicate long recovery period
The Hindu
Speaking from the hospital on Friday morning, Mr. Patil said that he had ended his fast but the quota agitation continues.
A day after pro-Maratha quota campaigner Manoj Jarange Patil ended his indefinite fast, doctors reported that his kidneys and liver are enlarged necessitating a prolonged recovery period.
The 40-year-old poster boy of Maratha agitation is dehydrated, leading to increased urea and creatinine levels due to his nine-day fast.
Currently, Mr. Patil is under medical supervision at a private hospital in the Ulkanagari area of Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
“He will take some to recover,” doctors said.
The activist, who had been agitating at Jalna’s Antarwali Sarati village since October 25 demanding reservation for Marathas in government jobs and education, called off his fast on November 2 after four Maharashtra ministers and retired judges M.G. Gaikwad - who had headed the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission - and S.B. Shukre, met and convinced him of the necessity to grant more time to the government and to the legal committees to ensure that the Marathas got a secure reservation that would hold water in the Supreme Court. They urged him to call off the indefinite hunger strike.
Speaking from the hospital on Friday morning, Mr. Patil said that he had ended his fast but the quota agitation continues. He asked the Eknath Shinde government to resolve the issue by December 24 and added that relay fasts would also continue.
On November 2, the activist gave a new ultimatum to the State government to issue Kunbi caste certificates to the Marathas to get quota benefits in the OBC category. He also demanded the State government to withdraw cases against the pro-quota agitators by December 24.
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