Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar on Wednesday exhorted Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil to contest as an Independent from Jalna in the upcoming Lok Sabha election even as the activist’s health deteriorated on the fifth day of his hunger strike.
Mr. Jarange-Patil launched yet another hunger fast since February 10 to protest against the government’s failure in granting other backward class (OBC) Kunbi caste certificates to blood relatives of Marathas whose records proved them as Kunbis.
The activist was reportedly bleeding from the nose owing to his fast, said the government doctor who visited him for a routine check. Mr. Jarange-Patil was intravenously administered medicines following the decline in his health.
