Governor K Sankarana-rayanan could not have known what Maharashtra was going to witness in the next two years when he during one of his meetings with assembly speaker Dilip Walse Patil in 2012 said something needed to be done about the state of affairs.

Walse Patil reportedly suggested that the Governor organise a meeting or seminar to discuss what was happening in the state, but he declined and put the onus on the Vidhan Bhavan secretariat.