Overview
- BJP legislator Sudhir Mungantiwar publicly criticised his own party-led Maharashtra government on Friday for not moving forward a resolution he tabled in March to seek a posthumous Bharat Ratna for V D Savarkar.
- Speaker Rahul Narwekar said the resolution was not placed before the House because it was not discussed in the Assembly’s Business Advisory Committee and promised to put it on the BAC agenda in the next session.
- Mungantiwar accused the government of 'sitting on the file' and urged Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandrakant Patil to state the administration’s position on the proposal.
- The episode highlights how routine legislative scheduling by the BAC can delay high-profile, symbolic motions and can expose divisions inside the ruling party over legacy politics.
- If the BAC takes up the matter next session, members could formalise the Assembly’s view on Savarkar’s citation and increase pressure on the state and central government to respond, raising the political stakes for BJP leaders.