ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PROTESTS IN MAHARASHTRA TODAY

After day-long violence in pockets of Maharashtra, Maratha Kranti Morchha, a Maratha group enforcing a bandh to press its demands for reservation in jobs and education, called off the strike in Mumbai city. At the time of my telling you this, protests and strikes are in progress in areas surrounding India’s financial capital. Through the day, protesters blocked arterial roads, including the Mumbai-Pune highway and the Eastern Expressway, and forced shops to shut. Local train routes were blocked in Jogeshwari and near Thane. Violence was witnessed in parts of the state on Tuesday after a protester committed suicide by jumping into a river in Aurangabad, but more on that later.

What has happened up until this point during these protests? Here is a quick lowdown:

First a quick update for our listener commuters: Transharbour services between Thane and Vashi on Transharbour lines have started as per the latest tweet from Central Railway at 4:46 PM.