Activist Manoj Jarange asks Maha Dy CM if he took ₹500 cr from BJP to 'silence' him

Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil asked Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde whether he had taken ₹500 crore from BJP to "silence him". "I want to know from Shinde whether this is true...Has he paid me ₹500 crore?...It's claimed that he paid me...through his son Shrikant," he said. Patil also alleged that a plot was being hatched to isolate Maratha community.