Along with ensuring that the Maratha community’s protest passed off without any law and order issues, the Navi Mumbai police were also faced with the additional challenge of ensuring the morcha did not hinder supply of goods to the Agricultural Produce Market Committee’s market.

Lakhs of Maratha leader Manoj Jarange Patil’s supporters of made a beeline for Navi Mumbai, after being denied permission to protest at Azad Maidan and directed to the International Corporation Park Ground at Kharghar instead. “We had around 3000 personnel on the ground for 48 hours to ensure law and order,” said Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Milind Bharambe.