Former Maharashtra Minister and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP SP) leader Vinayakrao Patil has quit the party and joined the ruling Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Pics/Eknath Shinde's office

Congress organised a farmers’ protest march from Kalamnuri to Hingoli in Maharashtra on Sunday, led by party’s state chief Harshwardhan Sapkal. The march, titled ‘Shetkari Sangharsh Padyatra (Farmers’ Struggle March),’ was organised to highlight issues faced by farmers and to protest against what the party described as anti-farmer policies of the Narendra Modi-led Centre. PICS/BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT