Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) chief Prakash Ambedkar on July 17 said that he would file an affidavit by July 24 seeking a cross-examination of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in connection with the 2018 Bhima-Koregaon clashes before the inquiry commission probing the causes of the violence.
Mr. Fadnavis was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra (2014-19) when the clashes occurred in Bhima-Koregaon and other adjoining villages in Pune district, leaving one person dead besides heightening the social tension across the State.
Following the clashes, the then State government had set up a two-member inquiry commission comprising retired Kolkata High Court Chief Justice J.N. Patel and former Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sumit Mullick in February 2018 to probe the sequence of events leading up to the New Year’s Day violence that year.
