India, Sept. 5 -- Protesters led by the National OBC Mahamanch have withdrawn their chain hunger strike, started six days ago, in Nagpur after the state government agreed to 12 of their 14 demands on Thursday, even as elsewhere in the state other groups are continuing their protests. The move comes two days after a similar intervention by the government which led to Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil breaking his indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan.

The OBC agitation in Nagpur commenced two days after Jarange-Patil started his strike backed by nearly 30,000 supporters. It was a retaliatory move to protect their own reservation, which they feared would be compromised if the state government agreed to let Marathas with Kunbi ce...