VBA chief urges Bhima Koregaon probe panel to summon Sharad Pawar

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar has written to the Bhima Koregaon Commission, requesting that Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar be summoned and asked to furnish a letter he had written to then-chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on January 24, 2020.

- Nadeem Inamdar

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In the letter, Pawar had alleged that the Bhima Koregaon violence was orchestrated by the then BJP-led state government under Devendra Fadnavis and that the state machinery, particularly the police, had been misused.

Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray, responding to Ambedkar's request, said that such a submission at this stage, when the commission's work is nearing completion, would only cause unnecessary delays.