Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray left for Jalna on Monday to meet the protestors demonstrating for the Maratha reservation. The ‘Rasta Roko’ movement began in multiple places and Thackeray has been stopping and meeting the people, the ANI report stated.  In his statement on Saturday, Thackeray blamed the Maharashtra government for the clash between protestors and the police on September 1 in Jalna.

Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar, concurrently, speaking on the lathi charge on protestors over the Maratha reservation said the government played games with the community. If their intentions were not dubious, the Maratha community—by making a law in the Parliament—could have been granted reservation. 
The Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly also raised the question that 18 ministers of the incumbent Mahayuti government were part of the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi government as well and they did not do anything during their previous tenure. He questioned why the ministers did not put forth a condition that they would join the new government only if the Maratha community was given reservation.