As promised, the opposition began the winter session of the state legislature on a stormy note. NCP leaders, including MP Supriya Sule, were detained on day one yesterday for blocking traffic on the Nagpur-Hyderabad highway. NCP alleged that Sule was injured in the melee that the high-handedness of the police caused. The NCP leaders were part of a hallabol march that they had undertaken some days ago from the farmer suicides affected Yavatmal district. The party is demanding the agrarian crisis be resolved, and better prices for farm produce. The leaders were released after some time.

Opposition leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, NCP leader Ajit Pawar and others stage a protest on the footsteps of Vidhan Bhavan in Nagpur