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• SC's verdict quashing Maratha quota may have bigger political ramifications May 5, 2021
  Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, while calling the SC decision “unfortunate” said in a press release: “With folded hands, I request the Prime Minister and the President to take an urgent decision.”
• Delhi Police arrests three people for selling fire extinguisher instead of oxygen cylinder May 5, 2021
• Punjab farmers to hold massive protest against lockdown on May 8 amid rise in Covid cases May 5, 2021
• Maratha quota: Thackeray asks Centre to step in post-SC ruling; BJP, MVA leaders play blame game May 5, 2021
  As the SC struck down the 2018 law, giving quota in government jobs and education to the Marathas, by terming it "unconstitutional", a political slugfest broke out over the sensitive issue in Maharashtra where the opposition BJP and leaders of the ruling MVA blamed each other for the setback in the apex court.