Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Oct 2 (PTI) Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Thursday said the Maharashtra government should declare before Diwali a wet drought in the areas affected by heavy rains and floods, and warned of launching an agitation if it failed to do so.

He also said farming should be accorded the status of a job and the government should pay to farmers every month for their work.

Addressing a rally at Narayangad in Beed district on the occasion of Dussehra, Jarange hit out at BJP leader and Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde over her reported "gazette of slavery" remark on the government's decision to implement the Hyderabad gazette for providing reservation to the Maratha community.

Several parts of the state, especially the Marathwada region comprising Chhatrapati Sa

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