On Friday, the OBC leader Ravindra Tonge, who has been on a hunger strike for the last 12 days for various OBC demands, was shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital after his condition deteriorated.

Ravindra Tonge, district unit chief of the student wing of the Rashtriya OBC Mahasangh, has been demanding that the Maratha community should not be included in the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the purpose of reservation.