On day one of the winter session, the Parbhani violence and the sarpanch's murder in Beed district were raised in the Maharashtra Assembly.

"Both the incidents — the desecration of the Constitution and the brutal murder of the sarpanch — have happened after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government came to power. In Parbhani, an Ambedkarite activist died in police custody. This incident is very serious and there is a lot of anger among the followers of Ambedkar and the people of the state," Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Nana Patole said, while speaking in the assembly on Monday, and demanded that the government come clean on the two issues.