Pune, Feb. 23 -- Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar has written to the Bhima Koregaon Commission citing a letter written by Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar on the 2018 violence in January 2020 and asked that the latter be summoned and documentary evidence be submitted.
The Elgar Parishad, a day-long programme featuring speeches, songs and plays, was organised in Pune's Shaniwar Wada on December 31, 2017 to commemorate 200 years of the battle of Koregaon, in which a small group of Mahar soldiers under the East India Company defeated a much larger Peshwa army on January 1, 1818. A day after the event, violence broke out near the memorial to the war at Koregaon Bhima village, located around 100km...