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* A policeman and two others were injured as the campaign for Maratha quota turned violent. A large number of protesters torched a fire brigade vehicle near Kaigaon in Aurangabad district where a 23-year-old, Kakasaheb Dattatreya Shinde, had committed suicide on Monday by jumping in the Godavari River demanding reservation.* Today, a Shiv Sena MP was reportedly manhandled in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district where he had gone to attend the last rites of Shinde.* The protesters have also blocked the Aurangabad-Pune highway since yesterday, making it difficult for the vehicles to pass through.* A pro-reservation Maratha leader said they have called the bandh across the state on Tuesday and that they would continue their agitation until Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis apologizes to the community."We will continue our agitation until Chief Minister Fadnavis apologises to the Maratha community. We will observe bandh in Aurangabad and other parts of the state today," Ravindra Patil, the coordinator of a pro-reservation group of Marathas, said.* In the wake of the Maratha reservation uproar, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh held CM Fadnavis responsible for the same."Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis is himself responsible for facing the ire of the Maratha and Dhangar communities on the issue of reservation. He himself had promised to resolve the issue within a month," he said at a press conference here on Monday.The Maratha Kranti Morcha demanded an apology from CM Fadnavis as it was not happy with CM's allegations that some members from the community were planning violence at Pandharpur. "The CM, while using objectionable language against the Maratha community, said that he had intelligence inputs that some organisations were planning violence to disrupt his visit to the Lord Vitthal Temple in Pandharpur," said Pravin Gaikwad, one of the coordinators of MKM.On Monday, 20 activists of Maratha outfit were detained as they were about to stage a protest ahead of CM Fadnavis' visit.MNS chief Raj Thackeray accused Fadnavis of "misleading" Marathas over reservation posts for job aspirants from the community in the proposed mega recruitment drive.On Monday, chief minister Fadnavis cancelled a visit to a temple in Pandharpur town after Maratha community leaders threatened to disrupt the event.* The community leaders had earlier taken out several rallies in various districts to highlight their demands. Last year, a huge rally was organised by the Maratha Kranti Morcha in this connection in Mumbai.Despite assurances from Fadnavis to fulfill the demands, nothing concrete has been done till now, community leaders have claimed.