MVA Announces Statewide Bandh Over Badlapur Sexual Assault; CM Eknath Shinde Labels Protest as Politically Driven.
Meanwhile, MVA Opposes Nikam as Prosecutor, Arguing a BJP Member Can’t Investigate a BJP-Run School. As the Opposition, with upcoming elections in mind, has devised a strategy to pressure the government by calling for a state bandh on August 24 over the Badlapur sexual assault case, CM Eknath Shinde has claimed that Tuesday’s protest was politically motivated and orchestrated. “Protests don’t occur like this; the number of local participants could be counted on one hand,” he remarked. Most of the protesters were transported in from outside, carrying placards opposing the ‘CM Ladki Bahin Yojna’—the government’s ambitious cash assistance program for …