Watch: Shops forcibly shut down, clashes erupt during Maharashtra bandh
Mumbai bandh
Violence marred on Tuesday where a constable died and nine other policemen were injured amid suicide attempt by three agitators.
A state-wide shutdown has been called in Maharashtra by the Maratha groups demanding reservation for the community.
The Maratha Kranti Morcha, which is spearheading the agitation, announced bandh in Mumbai to press their demand of 16 per cent reservation and to protest against the death of a Maratha youth in Aurangabad.
Another group, the Sakal Maratha Samaj, will lead the protest in Navi Mumbai and Panvel, according to reports.
Violence marred on Tuesday where a constable died and nine other policemen were injured amid suicide attempt by three agitators.
On Wednesday, many protesters blocked roads, forced people to shut shops and overturned a vegetable cart. The Maratha quota stir turned violent after clashes broke out between two groups in Udgir in Latur district.
Meanwhile, another group requested the shopkeepers with their folded hands to close their shops in Bandra.
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Most shops and commercial establishments remained shut in important pockets like Dadar, Andheri, Mulund, Kanjurmarg, Borivali, Kandivali, and in many other places as Maratha activists went around requesting shopkeepers to down shutters and express solidarity with their cause.
Protesters have even attacked buses and stopped local trains in Mumbai and the adjoining Thane city. Stones were hurled on two public transport buses in Wagle Estate areaand agitators burnt tyres on the arterial Ghodbunder Road in Thane.
The Eastern Expressway, Pune-Mumbai Expressway, Sion Panvel highway have been completely blocked. Also, local trains have been blocked in Jogeshwari and near Thane, however, there has been no impact on railway services in Pune, ANI reported.
Heavy security has been deployed in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad and Satara districts.
The Maratha Kranti Morcha said that essential services like water supply, fire brigade, ambulance services, hospitals, school and colleges, school buses are exempted from the bandh.
The impact of Tuesday'sbandhwas more visible in Aurangabad and adjoining districts in the central region of the state, a day after the death of a protester.
Quotas for Marathas, a politically influential community that constitutes around 30 per cent of the state's population, has been a hugely contentious issue.