Sharad Pawar calls for withdrawal of August 24 Maharashtra bandh after Bombay HC ruling

Mumbai, 23/8: In view of a Bombay High Court ruling, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday appealed for withdrawal of Saturday’s Maharashtra bandh called by the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)

The call for the bandh on Saturday (August 24) was given by the opposition alliance, of which the NCP (SP) is a constituent, to protest against sexual assault on two four-year-old girls in a school in Badlapur in adjoining Thane district .