Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange said on Friday that the community should continue its agitation by using means permitted by the law and not by pelting stones to press its demand for reservation in government jobs and educational institutions

Speaking to reporters from his protest site at Antarwali Sarati village in Jalna district, Jarange said, we are fighting for Maratha reservation and we will get it. The agitations that are taking place across the state should go on, and the agitators should work towards raising support for it

The activist appealed to the community members not to take the law into their own hands

The state on Thursday issued a Government Resolution (GR) stipulating that Kunbi caste certificates would be issued only after the Maratha community members from the Marathwada region provide genealogical records from Nizam-era. The region was once a part of the erstwhile Nizam-ruled Hyderabad kingdom

The Maratha quota issue returned to the centre stage in the state when the police last week baton-charged and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse a violent mob at Antarwali Sarati after protesters allegedly refused to let authorities shift Jarange to hospital. Several persons, including 40 police personnel, were injured and more than 15 state transport buses were set ablaze in the violence