Even as the demand for Maratha quota continues to gather opponents, in a super efficient move, the state enforced the law, allowing a 16 per cent reservation for them. This has been made applicable from Saturday itself.

Expediting law-making, its endorsement and notification started in the second half of the week. The governor ratified the law on Friday evening, a day after the state legislature approved the bill without debating it. Following the ratification, the administration wasted no time in publishing the law in the state gazette by midnight the same day. The official notification means that the law has come into effect from December 1, a deadline that CM Devendra Fadnavis had set for the entire process, which took just 14 days.