India, April 10 -- Baramati MP and NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule staged a sit-in protest on Wednesday, demanding that a 1.5 km stretch of road at Baneshwar in Baramati be repaired. Sule, along with a group of locals from Shree Kshetra Baneshwar village, sat outside the Pune district collector's office. The protest was continuing in the afternoon. The 1.5-km stretch between Nasrapur to Baneshwar temple in Bhor tehsil of the district was in extremely poor condition but the administration was not heeding the demand for its repair, she told reporters.

"We are not demanding a new road. We are only demanding that the existing road leading to the temple be repaired as it is ridden with potholes," said Sule.

Despite repeated follow-up for concreti...